fingerless
pronunciation
How to pronounce fingerless in British English:
UK ['fɪŋɡəles]
How to pronounce fingerless in American English:
US ['fɪŋɡəles]
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- Adjective:
- not having or having lost fingers
Word Origin
- fingerless (adj.)
- 1822, of gloves, from finger (n.) + -less.
Example
- 1. We broke up mostly because of your tacky fingerless gloves and moustache .
- 2. Yet you make guns for fingerless hoodlums , bullets for assassins .
- 3. Filthy children and fingerless lepers , tapping on car windows and pleading for " paisa , khana " ( cash , food ) , hang around every busy traffic junction and market in delhi .
- 4. But in spite of her hip outfit-including the long fingerless gloves designed to hide her zombie-stiff hands and the dark lipstick that covers up her inability to ever quite close her mouth-underneath , she 's the same old actroid-der .