See lime-fingered on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1562, John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 26:",
"text": "A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!",
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"ref": "1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 227:",
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"ref": "1906, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 448:",
"text": "Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.",
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"Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
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"(obsolete) Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
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