finger fan
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A position in which the fingers of one hand are spread out to form a fan-like shape.
noun
Synonym of finger mask.
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Jorrocks was equally early, having been greatly tormented by the old cutomer, who had appeared to him in his dreams in a variety of ways -- now running between his legs and upsetting him, now nearly blinding him with a whisk over his eyes from his sandy brush, again, as the chairman of a convivial meeting of foxes who did nothing but laugh and make finger fans to their noses at him, crying, " Ah, cut his tail ! Cut his tail!""
- "After years of practice she can manage a finger fan just past an octave and even for that there is pain."
- "Her hands were up behind her head in two finger fans that resembled ears."
- "Do knee pull, waist bend, and finger fan."
- ""We're singing for Dina today," Wilson said, "and you're dancing," and before he struck the second note and the singers got started on their first song, people were out in the middle of the gym floor, shoes off, feet moving and finger fans counting the beat"
- "In my moving hands I will hold finger fans of caribou hair."