单词 | fine-fingered |
释义 | fine-fingeredadj. 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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