Well, there couldn't be an easier spot than this, so how about being a bit original?
Gloves have fingers, and so do monkeys:
squirrel monkey, photo by Adrian Pingstone
and so, surprisingly, do fish:
Spirits come in fingers, too:
image: Vincent Le Moygn
not that kind of spirit!
By Benjamin Thompson - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23379451
that's better.
you might see a finger of land stretching out to sea, or a fingerboard on a stringed instrument:
photo Dmbruley
or a fingerpost to show you the way, or a fingerling, which is a very small fish.
If it's a very unlucky very small fish, you might even see it at a finger buffet, too.
Spot the Frippet: finger. This word hasn't changed for over a thousand years. It's related to the words five and fist.
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