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fingerbreadth

noun

Etymology

From finger + breadth. Compare Middle English fynger brede, fyngerbrede, fyngyrbrede.

  1. inherited from bredthe
  2. compounded as fingerbreadth — “finger + breadth”

Definitions

  1. A (usually approximate and informal) unit of measurement based upon the radial width of…

    A (usually approximate and informal) unit of measurement based upon the radial width of the human finger.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fingerbreadth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA