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单词 gold finger
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gold finger
gold finger n. Obsolete the finger next to the little finger, on which a ring is traditionally worn; the ring finger (see ring finger n.).In quot. 1912: this finger personified as a female character. [Compare Old Frisian goldfinger, Middle Dutch goutvinger (early modern Dutch goudvinger), Middle Low German goltvinger, Old High German goldfingar (Middle High German goltvinger, German Goldfinger), all denoting this finger.]
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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 99 Medicus uel anularis, læce uel goldfinger.
lOE Laws of Æðelberht (Rochester) liv. §4. 6 Gif man goldfinger of aslæhð, vi scillingum gebete.
1598 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Praxis Med. Vniuersalis iv. i. 522 The fourth is the gold finger or Anularis, for that commonly the same is wont to be garnished and deckt with gold rings.
1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 47 608 There was not a syllable said either of thumbkin, or pointling, or gold-finger.
1912 Primary Educ. June 332/2 Gold Finger had been given a ring... Gold Finger was very vain, and..she said to the other fingers, ‘I am better than you. You have no fine rings.’
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