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lime-fingered

lime-fingered adjective: given to petty thievery; light-fingered.

Adjective

lime-fingered (comparative more lime-fingered, superlative most lime-fingered)

  1. (obsolete) Given to petty thievery; light-fingered.
    • A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!1562, John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 26
    • Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace.1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 227

Forms of lime-fingered

comparativemore lime-fingered
superlativemost lime-fingered

Questions about lime-fingered

What does lime-fingered mean?
Lime-fingered means given to petty thievery; light-fingered.
What part of speech is lime-fingered?
Lime-fingered is an adjective.

Words near lime-fingered in the dictionary

  1. lime-a-rita
  2. lime-a-ritas
  3. lime-arita
  4. lime-aritas
  5. lime-ash
  6. lime-fingered
  7. lime-green
  8. lime-juicer
  9. lime-juicers
  10. lime-kiln
  11. lime-kilns

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