middle finger
nounEtymology
From Middle English myddel fynger. By surface analysis, middle + finger.
- inherited from myddel fynger
Definitions
The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.
An obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult, made by sticking up the middle…
An obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult, made by sticking up the middle finger of a hand.
- An Indiana man argues in a federal lawsuit filed last week that he had a First Amendment right to give the middle finger to a state trooper, and that his free speech was violated when the gesture earned him a ticket.
An insult directed at someone.
- Her whole way of being is a big middle finger to the other guy.
- Beem called the tactic [paying US$23500 settlement in coins] "petty and a grand waste of time" and said the coin delivery was "a symbolic middle finger."
The neighborhood
- synonymfuck finger
- synonymlong finger
- synonymmedius
- synonymmiddle finger
- synonymmid-finger
- synonymtall man
- neighbormid-finger
- neighborfinger
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for middle finger. 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