fingersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by (having) fingers.
Example Sentences
- "[…] and with us, as I trust, your seven Roman inferences,—some of which protensive as your arm and fingersome as your hand is, I confess I do not see how you contrive to hook into the train of this redoubted text."
- "The expert and fingersome swain was arrested on the sidewalk, just when he was transmitting some of his signals with six or seven fingers (the hours of love) towards that window on the fifth floor (this, in the opinion of headquarters, was a "strategic feint"): […]"
- "But with air-breathing lungs and a four-limbed body plan both in place, it wasn't long before these fingersome critters used their adaptations to access drier abodes."
Etymology
Etymology tree English finger Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English fingersome From finger + -some.
Inflected Forms
more fingersome (comparative)
most fingersome (superlative)