lime-fingered

comparative more lime-fingered · superlative most lime-fingered

1. obsoleteGiven to petty thievery; light-fingered.

   Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.

   1906, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 448

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   A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!

   1562, John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 26

   Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace.

   1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 227