fingering

fingering (countable and uncountable, plural fingerings)

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
  She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.
(music, countable) A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
That chord has two fingerings.
(uncountable) The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus.
Coordinate term: hand job
A thin woollen yarn for stockings.
Synonym: sock yarn

playing a musical instrument

Catalan: digitació f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 指法 (zh) (zhǐfǎ)
Finnish: sormitus (fi)
French: doigté (fr) m
Hungarian: ujjrend (hu)
Italian: manualità f, gestualità (it)
Maori: pokipoki
Polish: aplikatura (pl) f, palcowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: dedilhamento m, dedilhação (pt) f, digitação (pt) f, dedilhado (pt) m
Russian: аппликату́ра (ru) f (applikatúra)
Turkish: tıngırdatma (tr) (of stringed instruments)

specific method

sexual act

Catalan: inserció del dit f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 指交 (zh) (zhǐjiāo)
Czech: prstění (cs) n
Dutch: vingeren (nl)
Finnish: sormiseksi, sormitus (fi), sormetus (fi)
French: doigtage (fr) m
Georgian: თითაობა (titaoba)
German: fingern (de)
Indonesian: colmek
Italian: ditalino (it) m
Japanese: 手マン (te-man)
Persian: انگل کردن (angol kardan)
Polish: palcówka (pl) f
Portuguese: dedilhação (pt) f (Portugal), siririca (pt) f (Brazil)
Russian: фи́нгеринг (ru) m (fíngering)
Sicilian: jitata f, jitaleḍḍu m, sfissijata f
Spanish: (los dedos analmente (anal)) insertar (es), (los dedos vaginalmente (vagina)) insertar (es), dedear (es)
Thai: ใช้นิ้ว, ตกเบ็ด (th) (dtòk-bèt)
Turkish: parmaklama (tr)

fingering

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