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Meanings of
forefinger
in English
Portuguese
indicador
Catalan
índex
Spanish
índice
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The finger next to the thumb.
index
index finger
Portuguese
indicador
Usage of
forefinger
in English
1
The pustule on the
forefinger
shews the disease in an earlier stage.
2
Reacher touched the inside of his left wrist with his right
forefinger
.
3
Smiling slightly, the second engineer snapped a toggle with his left
forefinger
.
4
He wrote out the message in the air with a pointing
forefinger
.
5
Hold the upper part of the nose between the thumb and
forefinger
.
6
With his right thumb and
forefinger
,
he opened wide her right eye.
7
Only the weight of the
forefinger
was needed to spring the hair-trigger.
8
Izzy used her thumb and
forefinger
to take hold of the spoon.
9
Sayyed reached out and straightened the prisoner's
forefinger
on his left hand.
10
Abruptly Jack seized his left cheek with his left thumb and
forefinger
.
11
And she wore the emerald on the
forefinger
of her left hand.
12
One dips his
forefinger
in the dust and writes strange, monstrous characters.
13
Lord Arranmore bent the card in his
forefinger
,
and dropped his eyeglass.
14
With a trembling
forefinger
he found his place and went on reading.
15
The senator leaned forward and laid a
forefinger
on the vice-presidential knee.
16
Raising her right hand, her
forefinger
poised in the air, she said:
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About this term
forefinger
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
right forefinger
long forefinger
stubby forefinger
fat forefinger
left forefinger
More collocations
Translations for
forefinger
Portuguese
indicador
dedo índex
índex
dedo indicador
Catalan
índex
dit indicatiu
Spanish
índice
dedo índice
Forefinger
through the time
Forefinger
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common