Meanings
- euphemistichumorouspluralplural onlyA tendency towards unwanted sexual touching.
"Let's just say he had Roman hands and Russian fingers," she said. "I made him take me back home."
2002, Lon Leatherland, A Town Called Woodbridge, page 512 more examples
He might turn in test papers that were utterly blank—or blank except for a large, decorative question-mark—and Mrs. Douglas had discovered it was best to keep him away from the girls because of his Roman hands and Russian fingers, but he was quiet, so quiet that there were times when he might have been taken for a big lump of clay that had been crudely fashioned to look like a boy.
1986, Stephen King, ItI described them as foreigners — with Roman hands and Russian fingers. If that's all they wanted, they could just hit the dusty trail. I double-dated some, but decided I wasn't going out by myself with a boy again.
2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies, page 366Synonyms: wandering hands
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA tendency towards unwanted sexual touching.
Origin
A jocular modification of roaming hands and rushing fingers.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish harhailevat kädet
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French mains baladeuses
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Polish obmacujące łapy
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Roman hands and Russian fingers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Roman%20hands%20and%20Russian%20fingers
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