pinky

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(Dutch, pink.) The little finger. A very common term in New York, especially among small children, who, when making a bargain with each other, are accustomed to confirm it by interlocking the little finger of each other's right hands and repeating the following doggerel:


Pinky, pinky, bow-bell,

Whoever tells a lie,

Will sink down to the bad place,

And never rise up again.

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