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fingertipsful

fingertipsful is the plural of fingertipful.

Meaning of fingertipful

Noun

fingertipful (plural fingertipfuls or fingertipsful)

  1. The amount of a substance that covers a person's fingertip.
    • The good Fathers coming into the chapel to evening Benediction, securing liberal fingertipsful of holy water, as was their pious wont, and—disaster.1937 February, Harriet L. Carritte, “Saint John Berchmans”, in The Ethos, volume 10, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Emmanuel College, page 107

Questions about fingertipsful

What is fingertipsful the plural of?
Fingertipsful is the plural of fingertipful.

Words near fingertipsful in the dictionary

  1. fingertipful
  2. fingertipfuls
  3. fingertipped
  4. fingertipping
  5. fingertips
  6. fingertipsful
  7. Fingerville
  8. fingerwear
  9. fingerwidth
  10. fingerwidths
  11. fingerwise

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