fingertip

noun
/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/US

Etymology

From finger + tip. Compare tiptoe and toetip.

  1. inherited from *tuppijô
  2. inherited from tip
  3. compounded as fingertip — “finger + tip

Definitions

  1. The tip of the human finger.

    • The traditional Thai greeting, the wai, is generally offered first by the youngest of the two people meeting, with their hands pressed together, fingertips pointing upwards as the head is bowed to touch their face to the hands.
    • They were all professional to their fingertips, knew each other very well, and knew their disciplines backwards.
  2. To move or deflect with the fingertips.

    • Then Rogne released Forrest with a diagonal ball and the winger tormented Broadfoot again before blasting a shot which McGregor managed to fingertip over his bar.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fingertip. 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