adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective

1. 1
   Given to petty thievery; light-fingered. obsolete

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

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

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