fingering
noun1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
- She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
- That chord has two fingerings.
3
The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus.
4
A thin woollen yarn for stockings.
- Related terms
- fingerer, manual sex