英和和英

語源

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) +‎ fingered (“having fingers”, adjective).

発音

• enPR: lītʹfĭng'gərd

形容詞

light-fingered (comparative lighter-fingered または more light-fingered, superlative lightest-fingered または most light-fingered)

1. Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
2. (figuratively) Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans  […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108, page vii:

     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.

派生語

• light-fingeredness (noun)