Sami was fingering his prayer beads.
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Fingering
Synonyms for "fingering" (65 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 23 languages.
Catalan
3 entries- digitació noun (playing a musical instrument)
- digitació noun (specific method)
- inserció del dit noun (sexual act)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 指交 noun (sexual act)
- 指法 noun (playing a musical instrument)
- 指法 noun (specific method)
Czech
2 entries- prstoklad noun (specific method)
- prstění noun (sexual act)
Dutch
1 entries- vingeren noun (sexual act)
Finnish
4 entries- sormetus noun (sexual act)
- sormiseksi noun (sexual act)
- sormitus noun (playing a musical instrument)
- sormitus noun (specific method)
French
2 entries- doigtage noun (sexual act)
- doigté noun (playing a musical instrument)
Georgian
1 entries- თითაობა noun (sexual act)
German
2 entries- Fingersatz noun (specific method)
- fingern noun (sexual act)
Hebrew
1 entries- אִצְבּוּעַ noun (specific method)
Hungarian
1 entries- ujjrend noun (playing a musical instrument)
Indonesian
1 entries- colmek noun (sexual act)
Italian
3 entries- ditalino noun (sexual act)
- gestualità noun (playing a musical instrument)
- manualità noun (playing a musical instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- 手マン noun (sexual act)
Māori
1 entries- pokipoki noun (playing a musical instrument)
Persian
1 entries- انگل کردن noun (sexual act)
Polish
3 entries- aplikatura noun (playing a musical instrument)
- palcowanie noun (playing a musical instrument)
- palcówka noun (sexual act)
Portuguese
4 entries- dedilhado noun (playing a musical instrument)
- dedilhamento noun (playing a musical instrument)
- dedilhação noun (playing a musical instrument)
- dedilhação noun (sexual act)
Russian
3 entries- аппликату́ра noun (playing a musical instrument)
- аппликату́ра noun (specific method)
- фи́нгеринг noun (sexual act)
Sicilian
3 entries- jitaleḍḍu noun (sexual act)
- jitata noun (sexual act)
- sfissijata noun (sexual act)
Slovak
1 entries- prstoklad noun (specific method)
Spanish
3 entries- dedear noun (sexual act)
- insertar noun (sexual act)
- insertar noun (sexual act)
Thai
2 entries- ตกเบ็ด noun (sexual act)
- ใช้นิ้ว noun (sexual act)
Turkish
2 entries- parmaklama noun (sexual act)
- tıngırdatma noun (playing a musical instrument)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
It must be hard to play using that fingering.
Source: tatoeba (10074338)
His wife was still at the table, absently fingering the handle of her cup and staring fixedly out the window at the kennels behind the house.
Source: tatoeba (11305403)
She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.
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