单词 | ear-finger |
释义 | > as lemmasear-finger ear-finger n. [probably after post-classical Latin auricularis little finger (see auricular n.); compare Old High German ōrfinger] now historical and rare the little finger (as the one most easily inserted into the ear). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > little finger ear-fingerOE least fingerOE little fingerOE little manc1300 pinkie1808 minimus1881 auricular- OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 298 Auricularis, earfinger. c1200 ( Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (Bodl. 730) in Eng. Stud. (1981) 62 206/2 Auricularis, earfingar. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxix. 225 Þe litile fynge[r] [MS fynge]..hatte auricularis, ‘þe ere fyngir’, for wiþ hym we clawen and piken þe eres. 1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie sig. Eiiii The fore fynger, middle fynger, ryng fynger, and eare fynger, haue three Jointes a pece. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 179 To becken with the Eare-finger is their usuall concise expression. 1703 tr. P. Dionis Anat. Humane Bodies Improv'd 80 The fifth is the least of all, and called the Auricular, or Ear-Finger. 1809 B. Parr London Med. Dict. I. 217/2 The little finger is called the ear-finger, because with it we are most apt to rub and pick the inner ear. 1952 R. Graves White Goddess (rev. ed.) xi. 196 The Devil's blessing, still used by the Frisian Islanders, consists in raising the fore-finger and ear-finger of the right hand, with the other fingers folded against the palm. < as lemmas |
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