Definition of "pinkie" [pinkie]

• Informal The little finger. (noun)
• Variant of pink3. (noun)

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• "But now I’m a little sunburnt, and my left pinkie is on strike."
• "“We did, and while it pains me to break a pinkie swear, the thing is…” I held the little pillow against me and told her everything—how I’d found Evan’s name in Kitty’s kitchen, how the police had found his number on Kitty’s caller ID."
• "In a rough-and-ready sports car, it might have been fine, but it lacked the kind of pinkie-in-the-air refinement the SM deserved."