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fingersome

fingersome adjective: characterised or marked by (having) fingers.

Adjective

fingersome (comparative more fingersome, superlative most fingersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by (having) fingers.
    • […] and with us, as I trust, your seven Roman inferences,—some of which protensive as your arm and fingersome as your hand is, I confess I do not see how you contrive to hook into the train of this redoubted text.1818, Edward Thomas Vaughan, The Calvinistic Clergy Defended and the Doctrines of Calvin Maintained; in a Letter
    • The expert and fingersome swain was arrested on the sidewalk, just when he was transmitting some of his signals with six or seven fingers (the hours of love) towards that window on the fifth floor (this, in the opinion of headquarters, was a "strategic feint"): […]2007, Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, page 122

Forms of fingersome

comparativemore fingersome
superlativemost fingersome

Origin of fingersome

From finger + -some.

Questions about fingersome

What does fingersome mean?
Fingersome means characterised or marked by (having) fingers.
What part of speech is fingersome?
Fingersome is an adjective.

Words near fingersome in the dictionary

  1. fingersbreadth
  2. fingersbreadths
  3. fingersful
  4. fingersmith
  5. fingersmiths
  6. fingersome
  7. fingerspell
  8. fingerspelled
  9. fingerspeller
  10. fingerspellers
  11. fingerspelling

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