Why do they call your pinky fingers "pinky" fingers??!?!
Question:
Why do they call your pinky fingers "pinky" fingers??!?
What's that about? where'd the term come from?
Answers:
From http://www.word-detective.com/081203.htm...
"In the beginning, there was the old Dutch word "pinck," meaning "small." The little finger is known in Dutch today as the "pink," which is indeed the source of our modern "pinkie" finger...meanwhile, folks in Scotland had taken the Dutch word "pinck" meaning "small" and applied it to anything tiny, and the term "pinkie" meaning "the smallest finger" entered English from the Scots around 1800."
Hope this answers your question!
EmilyRN