MIDDLE FINGER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Middle finger

"Middle finger" Quotes from Famous Books

... sneezes dexter. For two years John Pike must have been whipping the water as hard as Xerxes, without having ever once dreamed of the glorious trout that lived in Crocker's Hole. But why, when he ought to have been at least on bowing terms with every fish as long as his middle finger, why had he failed to know this champion? The answer is simple—because of his short cuts. Flying as he did like an arrow from a bow, Pike used to hit his beloved river at an elbow, some furlong below Crocker's Hole, where a sweet little ...

— Crocker's Hole - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore

... Ickkeega. A woman Meanako Innago. Fish net Ya Sheebee. Tobacco pipe Tsheeree Shirree. Water Wakha Meezee. To drink Horopsee Noomoong. A book Shoomootza Sheemootsee. The finger Yewbee Eebee. The thumb O yewbee Hoee eebee. The thigh Momo Moomoo. The arm Oondee Teenoo. The middle finger Nagayewbee Nackkaeebee. Paper Kame Kabee. A dog Enoo Ing. A cat Necko Mia. A child Vasasso Warrabee. The foot Assee Shanna. The chin Olongyse Ootooga. The ear Meemee Mimmee. Yes O Oo. No Ny Oongba. Hair Kamu Kurrazzee. A boat Timma ...

— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall

... When it is desired to add lime to the quid, the tube is taken in one hand and held in a downward position with the thumb and little finger underneath it and the other fingers above it. The first finger is then made to slide with force from the middle finger down to the tube, thereby tapping out the lime. This tapping motion is similar to that ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... ancient ritual of English marriages, the ring was placed by the husband on the top of the thumb of the left hand, with the words, 'In the name of the father;' he then removed it to the forefinger, saying, 'In the name of the Son;' then to the middle finger, adding, 'And of the Holy Ghost;' finally, he left it as now, on the fourth finger, with the closing word, 'Amen.'" The History and Poetry ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... finger is that which is next to the little finger. The thumb is called the parent-finger; the first finger is called the index; the long is called the middle finger; but the third finger has no name. It is true that it is sometimes called the finger for applying rouge; but that is only a name given it by ladies, and is not in general use. So, having no name, it is called the nameless finger. And how comes it to have no name? Why, because it is of all the fingers ...

— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford