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lightfingered

lightfingered is the alternative 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 lightfingered

What is lightfingered the alternative form of?
Lightfingered is the alternative form of light-fingered.

Words near lightfingered in the dictionary

  1. lightfastnesses
  2. lightfield
  3. lightfield camera
  4. lightfield cameras
  5. lightfields
  6. lightfingered
  7. lightfingeredness
  8. lightfoot
  9. lightfooted
  10. lightfootedly
  11. Lightfoots

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