LITTLE FINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does little finger mean? 

• LITTLE FINGER (noun)
  The noun LITTLE FINGER has 1 sense:

1. the finger farthest from the thumb

  Familiarity information: LITTLE FINGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITTLE FINGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The finger farthest from the thumb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

little finger; pinkie; pinky

Hypernyms ("little finger" is a kind of...):

minimus (the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe)

finger (any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb))

Meronyms (parts of "little finger"):

musculus abductor digiti minimi manus (the abductor muscle of the little finger)

 Context examples 

I measured a little finger which had fallen down from one of these statues, and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found it exactly four feet and an inch in length.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Lord bless me! how those little fingers of yours fly about!"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They were no longer than his little finger, but he was not particularly hungry.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Now you are small—not one whit bigger than the end of my little finger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Every stitch Daisy's patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs. March.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker’s bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

What a strange rest and pause in my life there seems to be—and in all life, within doors and without—when I sit in the quiet, shaded, orderly room, with the blue eyes of my child-wife turned towards me, and her little fingers twining round my hand!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He glanced at the hand that held the brand, noticing the cunning delicacy of the fingers that gripped it, how they adjusted themselves to all the inequalities of the surface, curling over and under and about the rough wood, and one little finger, too close to the burning portion of the brand, sensitively and automatically writhing back from the hurtful heat to a cooler gripping-place; and in the same instant he seemed to see a vision of those same sensitive and delicate fingers being crushed and torn by the white teeth of the she-wolf.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink upon the outer side of his right little finger, remarked Holmes as he folded up the epistle.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not like to put my hand into a hireling's, but it is pleasant to feel it circled by Jane's little fingers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)