Etymology

fingerman

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Today it means: A surname from Yiddish. Full definition →

Yiddish פֿינגער
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The story

  1. Yiddish · derived fromפֿינגער“finger, toe”
  2. English todayFingerman

From Yiddish פֿינגער (finger, “finger, toe”) + מאַן (man, “man”), equivalent to finger + man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.