FINGER-PAINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finger-paint mean? 

• FINGER-PAINT (verb)
  The verb FINGER-PAINT has 1 sense:

1. apply colors with one's fingers

  Familiarity information: FINGER-PAINT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINGER-PAINT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apply colors with one's fingers

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "finger-paint" is one way to...):

paint (make a painting)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

finger-painting (painting by using the fingers to spread the paint)

finger-painting (a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers)