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発音

• IPA: /ˈfɪn.d͡ʒi/
• 韻: -ɪndʒi

名詞

fingy (plural fingies)

1. (slang, Antarctica or US, military) Synonym of FNG (“fucking new guy”).
   • 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian‎:

     Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.

語源 2

Clipping of finger +‎ -y.

名詞

fingy (plural fingies)

1. Alternative spelling of fingie (“finger”).
   • 1979 March 29, Ted Page, “Armidillo Bomb”, in Massachusetts Daily Collegian, volume CVIII, number [108], Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Amherst, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:

     The cliff beckoned, the button itched, it yearned to be pressed. “Press it, press it!” thought Podogevna. The Russian’s entire training and subsequent career rested on what Jimmy’s stalky little fingy would do.

   • 1985, Vassily Aksyonov, translated by Joel Wilkinson and Slava Yastremski, “Old Mochenkin’s Second Dream”, in Surplussed Barrelware, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis Publishers, →ISBN, page 61:

     As a matter of fact, why am I neighing like a jinny? Pardon my stupid laughter, gramps. You need medical treatment to fix up your fingy.

   • 1994, Tom Youngholm, “Prologue”, in The Celestial Bar: A Spiritual Journey, San Diego, Calif.: Creative Information Concepts, →ISBN, page 5:

     Already the finger was discolored and swollen. / Not now, Digger thought, not now. I’ve got too much to do. A thin veil of despair clouded over him. / “What’s the matter laddie?” Digger heard some loudmouth with an Irish accent yell from beyond the outfield fence. “Gotta go home and have yer mum fix yer little fingy?”

   • 2014 February 25, Nick Kroll, “Finger Magnets” (11:59 from the start), in Kroll Show‎, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Aspen Bruckenheimer (Nick Kroll):

     “What's the diz with the fingy mags?” “All of us citizen scientists have these finger magnets.”