Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small finger-shaped sponge cake.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See lady's-finger.
Wiktionary
- n. A small sponge cake, shaped approximately like a finger.
- n. A type of small banana.
- n. A variety of small firecracker.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small finger-shaped sponge cake
Examples
“The mixture used for ladyfingers is in reality a sponge-cake mixture, but it is baked in a certain oblong shape known as a ladyfinger shape.”
“Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger”
“Dip each ladyfinger into the coffee mixture to let it soak up some of the liquid (2-3 seconds) and place in the bottom of a 8×8 or 9×9-inch baking dish.”
“She sipped her tea and nibbled a ladyfinger, and I felt the relief of her wide gray stare removed from me, only to turn and catch Marm, the dull, unhappy look in her eyes changed to a curious sort of pride.”
“Store-bought savoiardi ladyfinger cookies are dipped in liqueur, layered with chocolate and then refrigerated until firm.”
“She was right then in the kitchen fussing with the ladyfinger dessert.”
“Underneath the icing, I bet it's one big spongy ladyfinger soaked in...espresso...uh, yeah.”
“A few crumbles of ladyfinger crumbs sprinkled on top for texture, and “Deconstructed Tiramisu” was done.”
“So moving along from the espresso with a ladyfinger, I brushed a Marsala syrup on the bottom of the plate, in hopeful floral designs.”
“In the first one, the ladyfinger-type things are clouds, the lifesavers above them are the sun and the moon, the navy-blue is the water and the orange blob is the sun's reflection on the water, and the chocolate chips are stars, or maybe ash fallout from a nearby volcanic eruption, or crashing meteorites, or something like that, and the crumbs of whatever-that-is are sand on the beach.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ladyfinger’.
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Let Them Eat Cake...
Tasty confectionery trinkets for the listless masses.
petit four, bon bon, scone, crumpet, meringue, cupcake, beignet, tart, tiramisu, ladyfingers, fritter, crepe and 44 more...
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C is for Cookie
chocolate chip, sugar, butter, oatmeal, peanut butter, pinwheel, snickerdoodle, shortbread, butterscotch, refrigerator, icebox, Girl Scout and 42 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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not the sum of their parts
words formed as the combination of two or more other words, but which have a meaning unrelated to either of the constituent words
earwig, ladyfinger, pantywaist, dovetail, eavesdropper, blackmail, greenhorn, mango, carpet, penny farthing, farthingale, damage and 118 more...
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I'm Giving You the Finger
The finger list, that is!
fingertip, fingerprint, fingernail, finger-pointing, fingerling, fingerboard, fingerpost, fingerless, fingerpick, fingerstyle, finger-paint, finger-roll and 69 more...
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dynamite's Words
avant-garde, secret, shutters, brassiere, devanagari, lotus, composition, film, vanguard, ultra, brocade, voile and 41 more...
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Man Cannot Live on Bread Alone
Types of bread products
pumpernickel, sourdough, rye, oatmeal, cornbread, multigrain, challah, naan, pita, tortilla, croissant, anadama and 67 more...
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Baby, You're a Firework
cherry bomb, whizbang, cannon cracker, ladyfinger, banger, cracker, ashcan, gerb, crow scarer, squib, squib-cracker, fizgig and 27 more...
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bilby Okra is sometimes referred to as this. Around here, it's generally a dainty kind of sweet banana. May 30, 2009