forefinger

Noun

Meaning

The finger next to the thumb; the index.

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Examples

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe. Joseph Conrad

One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger. Diogenes Laërtius

With a stiff forefinger I silenced the koto music. Peace flooded in; the world thanked me. George Alec Effinger

Ah!” Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. "Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small - it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.' That way lies confusion! Everything matters. Agatha Christie

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail. Charles Dickens

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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