nimble-fingered, a.
Quick and dexterous with the fingers; light-fingered.
| 1621 Quarles Argalus & P. (1678) 35 The nimble-fingered Lass Took the forg'd Letter. 1690 Dryden Amphitryon i. i, O, my nimble-fingered God of Theft, what make you here on Earth..? 1727 Gay Begg. Op. i. i, He..is as nimble-fingered as a juggler. 1773 Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 593 It should seem..that there are nimble-fingered ladies in all parts of the world. 1810 Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extr. Const. Code (1830) 65 note, Too simple to present any demand for instruction in the nimble-fingered art. |