fingering
IPA: fˈɪŋgɝɪŋ
noun
- (music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
- (music, countable) A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
- (uncountable) The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own vulva, vagina, or anus as a form of masturbation.
- (uncountable) The act of using the fingers to stimulate another person's vulva or vagina.
- (uncountable) The use of one's fingers to stimulate another person's anus.
- A thick woollen yarn for stockings.
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Examples of "fingering" in Sentences
- Ishbel in fingering (Malabrigo Sock Indiecita) or DK (Manos Silk Blend Hibiscus)?
- In the coming days, expect robocalls fingering Brown as an escaped Serbian war criminal or John Doe number two.
- His innovations in fingering, his use of the pedals, and his general treatment of the keyboard were hightly influential.
- The iPhone has a whole host of mother-friendly games, whether she's already an avid game hoarder or if she turns her nose up at the idea of fingering a D-pad.
- Now, don’t get me wrong: It is typically entertaining Noro yarn, ranging (in fingering weight) from bloated, impertinent tufts of roving to stuff as skinny as super-fine dental floss.
- The author of the Requiem would have lost none of his good qualities, but he might have gained, what, for the lack of a better phrase, is called the fingering of the voice, the art of handling it intelligently and making it give without an effort the best effect of which it is capable.
- The author of the _Requiem_ would have lost none of his good qualities, but he might have gained, what, for the lack of a better phrase, is called the fingering of the voice, the art of handling it intelligently and making it give without an effort the best effect of which it is capable.
- Other wheels, consisting of a simple disk of iron, not unlike a circular saw without any teeth, were used for cutting those narrow vertical lines, technically known as fingering, familiar to those so happy as to have had careful grandmothers, and to have inherited their decanters and wine-glasses.
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