ladyfinger

English

Ladyfingers (sense 2)

Etymology

From lady +‎ finger.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪdiˌfɪŋɡɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

ladyfinger (plural ladyfingers)

1. Alternative form of lady's finger.
3. A low-density, dry, egg-based, sweet sponge cake biscuit roughly shaped like a large finger.

   Alternative form: lady's finger

   Synonyms: boudoir biscuit, savoiardi / savoiardo, (chiefly UK) sponge finger

   Ladyfingers soaked in liqueur are the base of tiramisu, but I suppose you could just cut up a sponge cake instead.

4. A type of small banana.
5. A variety of small firecracker.

   Grandpa would give each of the kids a strip of ladyfingers to light on New Year's Day.

Derived terms

• ladyfinger cactus

Translations

small sponge cake biscuit

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: бишкота f (biškota)
• Catalan: melindro m, savoiard f
• Czech: piškot (cs) m inan
• Dutch: lange vinger (nl)
• Esperanto: fingreto, savoja biskvito, fingrobiskvito
• Finnish: kissankieli
• French: boudoir (fr)
• German: Katzenzunge (de), Löffelbiskuit, Biskotte (de)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: babapiskóta (hu)
• Italian: savoiardo (it)
• Ladino: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: pișcot (ro) n
• Serbo-Croatian: пишкота n
• Spanish: bizcocho de soletilla, soleta (es)
• Tagalog: bruwas
• Turkish: kedidili (tr)

type of small banana

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

type of small firecracker

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: papatti (fi)

See also

• ladies' fingers

Further reading

• ladyfingers (biscuits) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia