Is there a word for the moist imprint of a finger on a page in a book?

Umm….maybe a wet fingerprint?

or maybe moist fingerprint.

Dimple.

Plastic print:

A plastic print is a friction ridge impression from a finger or palm (or toe/foot) deposited in a material that retains the shape of the ridge detail.

Arthur.

@janbb we’re so sorry, Uncle Arthur…

thanks @Bluefreedom not as poetic as I’d hoped though…lol x

I personally quite like Dimple… perhaps because I have them?

@pdworkin Beatle theme again, yes, but not that reference.
Interviewer to George;
“What do you call your haircut?”
George:
“Arthur.”

@janbb you’re not the boss of my themes. I’m the boss of my themes.

…ooooh can I make one up???
please please???

… how about “plimple”???!!! :-D

My wife calls him Mr. Tickle! He doesn’t turn up in books though, more interesting hobbies for that little guy~

I always called them “finger impressions”. With my own rare books, I use the same protocol that archives require, white gloves. My hands are often so moist that I have to change the thin cotton gloves. My working volumes are so full of marginalia that my fingerprints just personalize them all the more.

Hanging chads? :-)

@Dr_Dredd only if Jeb Bush left them,ROFL

Or Katherine Harris…

Fimpression.

@lloydbird Nice portmanteau. Fimpressions or maybe Fingpressions gets my top vote.

I call that a damn good book to be getting your hands all hot and bothered over Lynne!! Care to share any titles?? I need a good recommendation on a sassy book!!

lol @Cruiser Unfortunately it wasn’t that type of book… it was more the gentleman sat across from me in the café that I was probably a little hot and bothered about…

I can highly recommend Delta of Venus and Little Birds by Anais Nin though if you do want something to get all steamy over ;-)

I do like Fimpression but of course I’m going to stick with plimple as it’s now officially mine according to janbb’s rules

“Plimple”: you’ve got one user now @lynneblundell . :^)

thank you xx :oD

@lynneblundell We used to read Anais Nin to each other, en francaise, to improve my French and….other purposes

@stranger_in_a_strange_land wow, that’s beautiful, I bet it’s amazing in French x I started doing A level French but had to give it up for my music career at the time… I wish I hadn’t. However, I’m not a natural at languages and found it incredibly hard

@lynneblundell I had to learn to bring my High School French up to speed, since Meg was a native French speaker. We taught each other, but our primary language en famiile was Quebec French. A really good and motivational way to learn.

Dewprint.

” Coming in from the rain, after checking my post, I found a letter from my beloved Winchester. With my hands trembling, I opened it carefully and read it. I was overjoyed, he was finally coming home! So, there I was, standing in the damp hallway, rain dripping off my very best tea frock, tears streaming down my face and my fingers making dewprints on the now smudged pages of his letter. I was a right and happy mess. I read the letter three more times before folding it up and returning it to its envelope. I gave it a quick kiss. At that point, a small pool of water had collected at my feet. I jumped in it like a spoiled child and shouted with glee. My beautiful dress was now officially ruined and I cared not one whit.”

@stranger_in_a_strange_land yes I remember you mentioning she was a native french speaker before x I was probably missing that one to one motivation, constant exchange etc. I am though teaching Theo French.. I figure I can at least give him a head start (and I don’t have to know it all to begin with… that’s the great thing about living with a child – you can slow down and learn at their pace…

Anyway! Dewprint…love it! who is that?

Me, that was me.

:)

Radiantly excellent, @DarlingRhadamanthus. Intuitively right, consistent with the evolutionary style of Engish, and ever so much more satisfying than a portmanteau word, which, I have to say, typically tends to be clever once and simply wearisome and annoying thereafter. “Dewprint” sounds so natural that I was actually surprised not to find it already in the dictionary.

My compliments.

@Jeruba and @DarlingRhadamanthus Just FYI, I loved your word so much I looked it up to see if it had been given that association. It had not. So I went a step further and checked a reverse dictionary for wet fingerprint. Whorl was as close as it came. Looks like there is no word in common English usage, so you, my friend, have first dibs. Let’s all start using dewprint accordingly and drive into the dictionaries of the future. :-)

picks up plimple and wanders off

@lynneblundell, I am sorry, darlin’, but “plimple” sounds to me like something plump that has popped up on my chin and needs to be dealt with.

@ETpro, I think all of us writers and wannabes should pledge to work it into every piece of fiction we write, and maybe even a magazine piece and a scholarly journal article or two, or at least a few letters to the editor of, say, Newsweek or the Times. That’s how it will get picked up by the compilers who make the lists of candidates for inclusion in the dictionary updates.

@lynneblundell Lurve sent for a fight well fought and an elegantly succinct concession speech. :-)

@Jeruba Consider it done by me. I’m copying it to my Excel spreadsheet of neat new words I’ve found, along with a credit to the source, of course.

@ETpro, of course. And of course a full acknowledgment must include mention of our @lynneblundell, who had the perspicacity to ask the question, without which there could have been no answer.

[[[ Loud sound of screeching brakes and distressed rubber!! ]]]
Just before you go apromotin your, imagined, new found word, consider this – .....?!
[[[[ Even louder sound of screeching brakes and more distressed rubber!!! ]]]]

I’ve just curtailed my, about to be asserted, argument that “dew..” occurs as a result of atmospheric conditions as opposed to the results of bodily emissions, as was implied in the OP, however, the online dictionary has just shot my position down by stating that ‘Dew’ can also be defined as – ”Moisture, as in the form of tears or perspiration, that appears in small drops.”

Slopes off admitting defeat also.
Having left dewprints on keyboard….

These are latent fingerprints. Ninhydrin sprayed on the paper will reveal them as a purple print.

Villanelle

Dewy-eyed with shimmering hair,
Maiden and lamb were a sight to see,
For her pet was white as she was fair.

And its lovely fleece was beyond compare,
And dearly it loved its Mistress Marie,
Dewy-eyed, with shimmering hair.

Its warpéd wool was an inwove snare,
To tangle her fingers in, where they could be
(For her pet was white as she was fair).

Lost from sight, both so snow-white were,
And the lambkin adored the maiden wee,
Dewy-eyed with shimmering hair.

Th’ impassioned incarnation of rare,
Of limpid-eyed, luscious-lipped, loved beauty,
And her pet was white as she was fair.

Wherever she wandered, hither and there,
Wildly that lambkin sought with her to be,
With the dewy-eyed, with shimmering hair,
And a pet as white as its mistress was fair.

—A. C. Wilkie.

Oh my stars….I just jotted down a few sentences.

—I didn’t think anyone would even note them.—-

I just thought about how “dewprint” sounded a bit antiquated….and thought of how it could/would possibly be used.

@lynneblundell…Thank you…without you…there would have been no search for a word. So, don’t dart off now.
@Jeruba…Thank you for your kind words. Coming from you, Fluther royalty, they mean a great deal to me. And the Villanelle….haunting and beautiful.
@ETpro…Hats off…and gracious thanks for the campaign.

Thank you for making me smile today….it was especially welcome.

“Abraham Lincoln The 2nd’s” is the correct term.