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LITTLE FINGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The finger farthest from the thumb
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("little finger" is a kind of...):
minimus (the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe)
finger (any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb))
Meronyms (parts of "little finger"):
musculus abductor digiti minimi manus (the abductor muscle of the little finger)
Context examples:
Irvine thrust between his lips the little finger of each hand and lent to her efforts a shrill whistling.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
She wanted to save her brothers, and had no key of the castle of the glass-mountain; so this faithful little sister took a knife out of her pocket and cut off her little finger, that was just the size of the piece of wood she had lost, and put it in the door and opened it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I fell on my knees, and begged the honour of kissing her imperial foot; but this gracious princess held out her little finger towards me, after I was set on the table, which I embraced in both my arms, and put the tip of it with the utmost respect to my lip.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Don't stop to quirk your little finger and simper over your plate, Amy, cried Jo, choking on her tea and dropping her bread, butter side down, on the carpet in her haste to get at the treat.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I wear a gold watch and chain, a ring upon my little finger, and a long-tailed coat; and I use a great deal of bear's grease—which, taken in conjunction with the ring, looks bad.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingers, symmetrically turned; a broad ring flashed on the little finger, and stooping forward, I looked at it, and saw a gem I had seen a hundred times before.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One of them now noticed a gold ring still remaining on the little finger of the murdered girl, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I saw him wet the tip of his little finger upon his tongue, and take up one of my largest pieces, and then another; but he seemed to be wholly ignorant what they were.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There was a collection of needles and pins, from a foot to half a yard long; four wasp stings, like joiner’s tacks; some combings of the queen’s hair; a gold ring, which one day she made me a present of, in a most obliging manner, taking it from her little finger, and throwing it over my head like a collar.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
