[ˈfɪŋɡə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included)
(e.g: she raked her hair back with her fingers)


Phrases:
- be all fingers and thumbs
- click one's fingers
- get one's finger out
- get one's fingers burned
- give someone the finger
- have a finger in every pie
- have a finger in the pie
- have one's finger on the pulse
- lay a finger on someone
- put one's finger on something
- put something on the long finger
- put the finger on

Origin:
Old English finger, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vinger and German Finger

[ˈfɪŋɡə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- touch or feel with the fingers
(e.g: the thin man fingered his moustache)

- inform on (someone) to the police
(e.g: he was fingered by a supergrass and charged with murder)

- play (a passage) with a particular sequence of positions of the fingers


Phrases:
- be all fingers and thumbs
- click one's fingers
- get one's finger out
- get one's fingers burned
- give someone the finger
- have a finger in every pie
- have a finger in the pie
- have one's finger on the pulse
- lay a finger on someone
- put one's finger on something
- put something on the long finger
- put the finger on

Origin:
Old English finger, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vinger and German Finger