finger-painting

1. 1.

   a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers

   Broaderpainting
2. 2.

   painting by using the fingers to spread the paint

   Broaderpainting

Questions about finger-painting

What does finger-painting mean?

finger-painting means "a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in finger-painting?

finger-painting has 4 syllables: fin-ger--pain-ting. The stress falls on "ger-".

Is finger-painting a common word?

finger-painting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.