What does "finger-pointy" mean?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of pointing a finger or fingers; prone or tending to point a finger or fingers.

Finger-pointy

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Adjective

1
Of, relating to, or characteristic of pointing a finger or fingers; prone or tending to point a finger or fingers. informal
"“She had gold teeth in front, wore a long braid and spoke in argumentative, finger-pointy Cantonese,” Olivia [Wu] remembers."
2
Characterized by finger-pointing (the making of accusations; the assigning of blame); prone or tending to accuse or assign blame. figuratively, informal
"Telling too much of the truth so as to expose the naked hand of power and its interests, calling things finger-pointy descriptions like male dominance, white supremacy, capitalism (I repeat, where is the U.S. Left? Did all these people really just disappear with the collapse of the Soviet Union?), going too much against the grain, especially against views embraced by the mainstream media—which has taken over much of the function of credentialing the intelligentsia that the academy used to exercise—this is the danger zone."

"“She had gold teeth in front, wore a long braid and spoke in argumentative, finger-pointy Cantonese,” Olivia [Wu] remembers."

From finger-point (verb) and finger point (noun) + -y.

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