fingersome

comparative more fingersome · superlative most fingersome

1. Characterised or marked by (having) fingers.

   But with air-breathing lungs and a four-limbed body plan both in place, it wasn't long before these fingersome critters used their adaptations to access drier abodes.

   2021, Elsa Panciroli, Beasts Before Us, page 56

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   […] and with us, as I trust, your seven Roman inferences,—some of which protensive as your arm and fingersome as your hand is, I confess I do not see how you contrive to hook into the train of this redoubted text.

   1818, Edward Thomas Vaughan, The Calvinistic Clergy Defended and the Doctrines of Calvin Maintained; in a Letter

   The expert and fingersome swain was arrested on the sidewalk, just when he was transmitting some of his signals with six or seven fingers (the hours of love) towards that window on the fifth floor (this, in the opinion of headquarters, was a "strategic feint"): […]

   2007, Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, page 122