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  • noun Plural form of pinky.
  • noun Plural form of pinkie.

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Examples

  • I'm an emacs user, and having the control key down at my thumbs instead of out beyond my pinkies was a huge improvement.

    Coding Horror 2009

  • One of their finger-like claws was a third the length of their entire body, although in fact it's not their middle fingers which were elongated, but their pinkies, meaning that they were also the fanciest dinosaurs of all time.

    GeekLikeMe.net 2009

  • The American stereotype of the British is that they are stodgy and uptight, wearing powdery wigs and raising their pinkies as they consume tea and crumpets.

    Pablo Andreu: Gervais Proves Americans Can't Take a Joke Pablo Andreu 2011

  • This idealized sweetness is throughout the work and is displayed with small flourishes like exquisite flowers, extended pinkies, rhinestone bracelets and ornamental curls.

    Tracey Harnish: Big Felt Bears Tracey Harnish 2012

  • But while cricket is genteel, conjuring up images of tea-drinking vicars with pinkies extended on the village green, the organised chaos of hurling is more reminiscent of a couple of gangs of horny-handed rival villagers setting about each other with pitchforks.

    Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning 2011

  • The American stereotype of the British is that they are stodgy and uptight, wearing powdery wigs and raising their pinkies as they consume tea and crumpets.

    Pablo Andreu: Gervais Proves Americans Can't Take a Joke Pablo Andreu 2011

  • This idealized sweetness is throughout the work and is displayed with small flourishes like exquisite flowers, extended pinkies, rhinestone bracelets and ornamental curls.

    Tracey Harnish: Big Felt Bears Tracey Harnish 2012

  • This idealized sweetness is throughout the work and is displayed with small flourishes like exquisite flowers, extended pinkies, rhinestone bracelets and ornamental curls.

    Tracey Harnish: Big Felt Bears Tracey Harnish 2012

  • Madeleine Begun Kane has a limerick she wrote just for the spats over healthcare in the U.S. (watch your pinkies!):

    Blawg Review #228 : Law is Cool 2009

  • This idealized sweetness is throughout the work and is displayed with small flourishes like exquisite flowers, extended pinkies, rhinestone bracelets and ornamental curls.

    Tracey Harnish: Big Felt Bears Tracey Harnish 2012

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