The little finger, often called the pinky in American English, pinkie in Scottish English (from the Dutch word pink, "little finger"), or small finger in medicine, is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger.
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Famous quotes containing the word finger:
“the trouble lies in pointing
At any stars. For ones own finger aims
Always elsewhere: the man beside one seems
Never to get the point. No! The bright star
Just above my fingertip.”
—John Hollander (b. 1929)