spidery finger
- noun
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dedo arañal
- The artist's spidery finger traced graceful lines across the paper.
Examples
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Her spidery finger reached out to adjust the delicate chain around her neck.
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The artist's spidery fingers danced across the canvas as she created her intricate masterpiece.
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He offered a handshake with his spidery fingers, cool and gentle to the touch.
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She pointed with her spidery finger.
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His spidery fingers danced over the piano keys.
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She gently touched the page with her spidery fingers, tracing the delicate lines of the drawing.
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His spidery fingers made it easy for him to play the delicate notes on the piano.
Synonyms
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One of the long thin parts at the end of a hand
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'spidery' (resembling a spider or its web, i.e. thin/delicate) modifies 'finger', so a learner who knows both words can infer a thin, delicate finger. This adjective+noun pattern is a regular and cross-linguistically common descriptive construction, making the phrase immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Spidery finger may come from the image of a hand where each finger looks like a spider's long, thin leg. So the phrase describes a 'thin' or 'delicate' finger and can also suggest a 'light' or 'gentle' touch.