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fingersmith

/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌsmɪθ/obsolete

fingersmith is a noun meaning “pickpocket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-G-E-R-S-M-I-T-H, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fingersmith is fingersmiths.

What does fingersmith mean?

noun

  1. 1

    archaicslangpickpocket

  2. 2

    archaicslangmidwife

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fingersmith?

  • UK /ˈfɪŋɡə(ˌ)smɪθ/
  • US /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌsmɪθ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fingersmith.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-fingersmith.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fingersmith

  • finger-smith

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fingersmith?

Fingersmith appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fingersmith come from?

From finger + smith.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).