Frombe-(“about, all over”) +finger.
befinger (third-person singular simple presentbefingers,present participlebefingering,simple past and past participlebefingered)
- (transitive) Tofinger all over.
- 1901, Proceedings of The... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons ...:
- Unfortunately, lack of scientific training on the part of medical attendants who probe andbefinger wounds without proper antiseptic precautions is met with too often.
