fingering

English

Noun

fingering (plural fingerings)

1. (music) (uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
   • 1813 CE: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

     She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.

2. (music) (countable) A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.

   That chord has two fingerings.

3. (uncountable) The act of using the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus.

Translations

playing a musical instrument

• Catalan: digitació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指法 (cmn) (zhǐfǎ)

• Finnish: sormitus (fi)

• Hungarian: ujjrend (hu)
• Italian: manualità (it) f, gestualità (it)
• Portuguese: dedilhamento (pt) m, dedilhação (pt) m, dedilhamento (pt) m
• Russian: аппликатура (ru) (applikatúra) f

specific method

• Catalan: digitació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指法 (cmn) (zhǐfǎ)

• Czech: prstoklad (cs) m
• Finnish: sormitus (fi)
• Russian: аппликатура (ru) (applikatúra) f

sexual act

• Catalan: inserció del dit (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指交 (cmn) (zhǐjiāo)

• Czech: prstění (cs) n
• Finnish: sormiseksi (fi)
• French: doigtage (fr) m

• Italian: ditalino (it) m
• Japanese: 手マン (ja) (te-man)
• Polish: palcówka (pl) f
• Russian: фингеринг (ru) (fíngering) m
• Spanish: (los dedos analmente (anal)) insertar (es), (los dedos vaginalmente (vagina)) insertar (es)

Verb

fingering

1. Present participle of finger.
   • 1898 CE: H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

     "They have done a foolish thing," said I, fingering my wineglass.