middle finger
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- noun
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- They say the middle finger is the longest finger on the hand, positioned between the index and ring fingers.
- the right middle finger
- the left middle finger
- the index and middle fingers
A man in Britain has the strongest middle finger on earth.
- A man in Britain has the strongest middle finger on earth.
- Turns out my left hand middle finger is the key part of like pushing socks off me.
- So, for example, he would cut the nerves that carried information from the middle finger of the monkeys.
- So you want to pull push towards you with your middle finger.
- Grab that center packet between your thumb and middle finger.
Examples
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Jimmy balanced the knife point on the ball of his middle finger.
Fiction book (1993) -
With the tip of his middle finger, he smooths first one eyebrow, then the other.
Fiction book (1994) -
So I just take my middle finger and press it in.
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I always use my middle finger for my eye cream.
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Let it rest on the side of your middle finger.
Fiction book (1991) -
And now I want you to take one hand and stroke the back of the middle finger of the other hand.
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Did you know that the span of your hand plus the length of your middle finger is the same as the length of your foot?
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After a minute, she felt a tiny wince of cold on the back of her middle finger.
Fiction book (1995) -
Concepcion twisted the small gold band he wore on the middle finger of his right hand.
Fiction book (1995) -
The pigment is in soon and I'm just going to go in with my middle finger and I'm just going to pack that onto my lid.
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Morphology
The phrase literally denotes the finger in the middle of the hand, so that anatomical sense is directly compositional from 'middle' + 'finger'. However, the conventionalized meaning as a rude insulting gesture is a culturally learned use that cannot be fully derived from the constituents alone, so overall the expression shows partial (but not full) transparency.
Etymology
Middle finger is the finger between the index finger and the ring finger; it is literally the one in the 'middle' of the hand, so the name simply describes its position.