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单词 fine-fingered
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fine-fingeredadj.

Brit. /ˌfʌɪnˈfɪŋɡəd/, U.S. /ˌfaɪnˈfɪŋɡərd/
Forms: see fine adj., adv., and n.2 and fingered adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fine adj., fingered adj.1
Etymology: < fine adj. + fingered adj.1With sense 2, compare earlier light-fingered adj.
1. Delicate in nature or constitution; dainty, fastidious.In quot. 1549: suited to delicate people.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or delicate
fine-fingered1549
brickle1568
kittle1568
tickle1569
delicate1574
trickle1579
chary1581
ticklesome1585
ticklish1591
jealous1600
tender1625
nicea1630
thorny1653
parlous1657
tricksy1835
niggling1851
tricky1868
catchy1874
pernickety1884
trickish1900
fiddly1926
footery1929
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective]
chisa700
estfula1000
esquaymous1303
squeamousc1325
overnicec1350
curiousc1380
dangerousc1386
delicatea1393
preciousc1395
nicec1400
skigc1400
over-delicatea1425
daintethc1430
ticklec1456
quaint1483
dauncha1500
pickinga1500
feat?1529
elegant?1533
queasy1545
fine1546
fine-fingered1549
fastidious?1555
fine-mouthed1559
chary1567
weamish1571
saucy1573
dainty1576
superfine1576
niced1577
overcurious1579
nicing1581
fineish1582
prick-me-dainty1583
daint1590
finical1592
tiptoe-nice1593
nice1594
nicking1598
choice1601
squeamish1608
marchpane1609
hypercritical1611
particular1616
finicking1661
overcritical1667
just so1696
penurious1703
fal-lal1747
ogertful1754
nackety1756
quiddling1789
pernickety1808
pershittie1808
taffety1814
hypercritic1820
faddy1824
finicky1825
meticulous1827
daintified1834
squeamy1838
picksome1855
choosey1862
picky1867
hyperaesthetic1879
persnickety1885
précieux1891
perskeet1897
tasty1905
Nice Nelly1922
perfectionist1942
snicketya1960
perfectionistic1968
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. iv. f. xiii To professe Christ, is not an ydle nor a delycate finefyngred matter [L. otiosa aut delicata professio].
1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete (new issue) sig. H.iv These fyne fingered Rufflers wyth their Sables about their neckes..they chyll for cold, & tremble when they come abroade.
1589 T. Wilcox Short Commentarie Prouerbes Salomon xxxi. f. 205v A good woman is not so fine fingred, as many daintie dames are at this day, but will lay hir hands to any worke.
1620 T. Cooper Cry & Reuenge of Blood iii. 28 No reuenue will vsually serue their luxurie and excesse, so they are so fine fingred that they cannot labour.
1659 N. Whiting Old Jacobs Altar 241 We are grown so fine-fingered now, that we will not touch a soiled garment.
1729 C. Johnson Village Opera i. ii. 15 A fine-finger'd Minx!..She must ride, forsooth, in the Coach with my Lady.
1803 Evangelical Mag. Feb. 66 No idlers, no drones, no fine-fingered gentry, afraid of soiling their delicate hands.
1888 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 15 Dec. (Holiday Suppl.) 299/1 Why does a fine-fingered youngster like you travel to New Ford in common fashion?
1914 Bookman Mar. 306/2 It was humility, in short, that made him deal solely with fine-fingered folk—with people of ‘the better sort,’ ‘the finer grain.’
2002 Express (Nexis) 13 July 57 Flint is very good on clothes, and very good generally at evoking the dandyish, narcissistic, fine-fingered Marty.
2. Deft or skilful with the hands; dexterous, nimble-fingered; light-fingered. Formerly in extended use: †given to cheating or stealing; dishonest; cf. light-fingered adj. 1 (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [adjective]
light-fingered1546
lime-fingered1546
pilfering1546
fine-fingeredc1555
filching1570
mitching1576
lurching1577
lime-twig1602
nimming1603
pitchy1660
fingerative1674
marauding1748
light-handed1769
tarry1822
tarry-fingered1825
sticky-fingered1855
panhandling1884
tarry-fisted1906
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having or characterized by bodily skill > skilled with hands
handya1525
fine-fingeredc1555
sure-handed1555
nimble-fingered1629
neat-fingered1641
neat-handed1645
sleight-hand1792
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. D.vv By fyne fingered Fegge boye..picked shalbe his purse.
1591 E. Spenser Complaints sig. V3 The most fine fingred workwoman on ground, Arachne.
1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 21 Taking me for a fine fin-gred companion.
1623 G. Fletcher Reward of Faithfull 406 If we should see a rude Carter offer to play vpon the instrument of a fine-fingred and dactrycall Musitian..who could but laugh at him.
1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool II. xiii. 113 Women..are better Tools than false Dice; more Money is got with them, and without the Fear of Detection, which sometimes cramps a fine-finger'd Fellow's Dexterity.
1797 T. Connelly & T. Higgins Diccionario Nuevo y Completo de las Lenguas Española é Inglesa I. 487/2 A finefingered workman, artesano primoroso, el que tiene mano para trabajar cosas delicadas.
1863 Belfast News-let. 28 Aug. 4/1 Many of the designs were really beautiful and far exceeded in execution and taste the work of numbers of fine-fingered boarding-school girls.
a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 36 Captain Cat blind and fine-fingered savours his sea-fry.
1974 Oregon Hist. Q. 75 21 A fine-fingered technician with patient and uncompromising fidelity to the job.
2012 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 31 May 47 Buckingham has long been known as a fine-fingered guitarist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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