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middle finger

[ mid-l fing-ger ]

noun

  1. the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
  2. Slang. an obscene gesture of contempt made by pointing this finger upward while folding the other fingers against the palm; the finger: finger ( def 18 ).

    The driver honked his horn and got the middle finger from the biker.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of middle finger1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English, Old English

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Example Sentences

For those who have a problem with that, she offered a charming, subtle middle finger.

I then felt a hand holding my hand and ‘felt’ it had no middle finger.

The extension of that middle finger began Tuesday afternoon at a weekly lunch for Republican senators.

Matangi, a reclamation of the brown girl narrative, is a middle finger to you.

At the end, the two embraced and Eminem flicked off the crowd, a middle-finger mea culpa.

Bobby said that that knuckle of Gee Gees middle finger had been abnormally developed by continued bringing the class to order.

These it uses as we would a thumb and middle finger; and there are hairs between these claws, as well as all over the legs.

The table line, commonly called the line of fortune, begins under the little finger, and ends near the middle finger.

She strikes five strokes with the middle finger upon my hand in the air: the five strokes are rapped upon the table (November 19).

His malady increased till it left him with the use of only the middle finger of each hand.

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