stained fingers
Discolored from handling
Stained fingers are fingers discolored by contact with pigments, dyes, chemicals, or other substances that leave lasting marks.
The phrase often evokes particular activities or habits: the stained fingers of a painter, a mechanic's grease-stained fingers, the nicotine-stained fingers of a heavy smoker.
In detective fiction and forensics, stained fingers may reveal what someone has been handling.
- inkWriting fluid
- printer inkPigmented liquid for printing
- nicotineAddictive tobacco alkaloid
- chain smokerContinuous tobacco user
- dyePigment for changing hues
berries · berry picking · paint · smudged · dirty · yellowed · yellow teeth · blackened · tobacco · artist · mechanic · grease · pigment · blueberry · newsprint · wine · iodine · walnut
- smoking harmslung cancer, emphysema, COPD, smoker's cough, nicotine addiction
- berriesblackberry, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry