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mid-finger

mid-finger is the alternative form of middle finger.

Meaning of middle finger

Noun

middle finger (plural middle fingers)

  1. The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.
  2. An obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult, made by sticking up the middle finger of a hand.
    • An Indiana man argues in a federal lawsuit filed last week that he had a First Amendment right to give the middle finger to a state trooper, and that his free speech was violated when the gesture earned him a ticket.2018 February 4, Jason Silverstein, “Giving Middle Finger to Police Is a First Amendment Right, Man Argues in Lawsuit Over Ticket”, in Newsweek
  3. (figuratively) An insult directed at someone.
    • Her whole way of being is a big middle finger to the other guy.2007, Dominique Paul, The Possibility of Fireflies, page 62

Adjective

mid-finger (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the middle of a finger, such as the intermediate phalange or proximal interphalangeal joint regions

Forms of mid-finger

pluralmid-fingers
alternative formmidfinger
alternative formmid finger

Origin of mid-finger

From mid- + finger.

Words formed from mid-finger

  • mid-finger ring

Questions about mid-finger

What does mid-finger mean?
Mid-finger means pertaining to the middle of a finger, such as the intermediate phalange or proximal interphalangeal joint regions.
What is mid-finger the alternative form of?
Mid-finger is the alternative form of middle finger.
What part of speech is mid-finger?
Mid-finger is an adjective.

Words near mid-finger in the dictionary

  1. mid-drifts
  2. mid-evil
  3. mid-fall
  4. mid-falls
  5. mid-February
  6. mid-finger
  7. mid-fingers
  8. mid-grade
  9. mid-iron
  10. mid-irons
  11. mid-January

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mid-finger (page history and authors); middle finger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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