light-fingered
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light-fingered
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From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + fingered (“having fingers”, adjective).
adjective lighter-fingered · more light-fingered · lightest-fingered · most light-fingered · lightfingered
- Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
- Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
Similar: furacious, light-fingered, sticky-fingered, theftuous, thievish
verb lightfingered
- simple past and past participle of light-finger
Thesaurus
adjective
Similar: furacious, light-fingered, sticky-fingered, theftuous, thievish
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adj having quick, light and nimble fingers
| 中文 | 手指靈巧的 /手指灵巧的 shǒuzhǐ língqiǎo de |
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adj given to stealing, pickpocketing, thievery, shoplifting
| Español | dedos largos, amigo de lo ajeno |
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| 中文 | 巧手的 qiǎoshǒu de |
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