| fat-finger Feb 28th 2013, 18:37 | | | | Line 3: | Line 3: | | | ===Alternative forms=== | | ===Alternative forms=== | | | * [[fat finger]], [[fatfinger]] | | * [[fat finger]], [[fatfinger]] | | | + | | | | + | Juya's fingers are a lot fatter than Mircea's | | | | | | | | ===Etymology=== | | ===Etymology=== |
Latest revision as of 18:37, 28 February 2013 [edit] English [edit] Alternative forms Juya's fingers are a lot fatter than Mircea's [edit] Etymology fat + finger, the implication being that a person who fat-fingers does so because his or her fingers are too fat to strike a key without accidentally simultaneously striking a neighboring key. fat-finger (third-person singular simple present fat-fingers, present participle fat-fingering, simple past and past participle fat-fingered) - (transitive, informal) To make errors in typing on a keyboard or keypad by accidentally striking more than one key simultaneously with one finger.
- 1995 September 8, "US West software update disconnects online users", Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
- Another Sprint employee speculated that someone might have fatfingered the keyboard.
- 2008 August 24, "DNS: Patched but not totally fixed", TechRepublic:
- However the other day I fatfingered a web request and got a Charter Communicationsnot found result page
- 2010 May 06, Jennie Runevitch, "Source of stocks' plunge investigated", wthr.com, Indianapolis:
- "Evidently, someone said they 'fat-fingered' a trade, meaning they accidentally put it in for billions instead of millions," Snyder said.
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