MIDDLE FINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does middle finger mean? 

• MIDDLE FINGER (noun)
  The noun MIDDLE FINGER has 1 sense:

1. the second finger; between the index finger and the ring finger

  Familiarity information: MIDDLE FINGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE FINGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second finger; between the index finger and the ring finger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("middle finger" is a kind of...):

finger (any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb))

 Context examples 

Her own little right-hand middle finger got steeped to the very bone in ink; and I think that was the only decided result obtained.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These muscles act to abduct the fingers away from the middle finger.

(Dorsal Hand Interosseous Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of my right ear.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)