fingering

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Noun

fingering (countable and uncountable, plural fingerings)

1. (music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
   • 1813, 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 stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus.

   Coordinate term: hand job

4. A thin woollen yarn for stockings.

   Synonym: sock yarn

Translations

playing a musical instrument

• Catalan: digitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指法 (zh) (zhǐfǎ)

• Finnish: sormitus (fi)
• French: doigté (fr) m
• Hungarian: ujjrend (hu)
• Italian: manualità f, gestualità (it)
• Maori: pokipoki
• Polish: aplikatura (pl) f, palcowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: dedilhamento m, dedilhação (pt) f, digitação (pt) f, dedilhado (pt) m
• Russian: аппликату́ра (ru) f (applikatúra)
• Turkish: tıngırdatma (tr) (of stringed instruments)

specific method

• Catalan: digitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指法 (zh) (zhǐfǎ)

• Czech: prstoklad m
• Finnish: sormitus (fi)
• German: Fingersatz (de) m
• Hebrew: אִצְבּוּעַ m (itzbúa')
• Portuguese: digitação (pt) f
• Russian: аппликату́ра (ru) f (applikatúra)
• Slovak: prstoklad m

sexual act

• Catalan: inserció del dit f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指交 (zh) (zhǐjiāo)

• Czech: prstění (cs) n
• Dutch: vingeren (nl)
• Finnish: sormiseksi, sormitus (fi), sormetus (fi)
• French: doigtage (fr) m
• German: fingern (de)
• Indonesian: colmek
• Italian: ditalino (it) m
• Japanese: 手マン (te-man)
• Persian: انگل کردن (angol kardan)
• Polish: palcówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: dedilhação (pt) f (Portugal), siririca (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: фи́нгеринг (ru) m (fíngering)
• Spanish: (los dedos analmente (anal)) insertar (es), (los dedos vaginalmente (vagina)) insertar (es), dedear (es)
• Thai: ใช้นิ้ว, ตกเบ็ด (th) (dtòk-bèt)
• Turkish: parmaklama (tr)

See also

• fingerer
• manual sex

Verb

fingering

1. present participle and gerund of finger

Further reading

• fingering (sexual act) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fingering (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia