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lightest-fingered

lightest-fingered is the superlative form of light-fingered.

Meaning of light-fingered

Adjective

light-fingered (comparative lighter-fingered or more light-fingered, superlative lightest-fingered or most light-fingered)

  1. Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
  2. (figuratively) Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.
    • There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.1848 June 28, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Before the Curtain”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], →OCLC, page vii

Questions about lightest-fingered

What is lightest-fingered the superlative form of?
Lightest-fingered is the superlative form of light-fingered.

Words near lightest-fingered in the dictionary

  1. lighterman
  2. lightermen
  3. lighters
  4. lighterweight
  5. lightest
  6. lightest-fingered
  7. lightest-footed
  8. lightest-handed
  9. lightest-hearted
  10. lightest-skinned
  11. lightest-witted

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