Meaning of lime-fingered | Babel Free

Definitions

Given to petty thievery; light-fingered.

obsolete

Examples

“A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!”

“Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace.”

“Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.”

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