Definition: A signature done on a touch screen with your finger. (Merriam-Webster online)
Sample usage: "Please scribble your illegible fignature here to complete the illusion of security on this credit card transaction."
Popularity: Meh. "Dignature" would be better because it combines the meanings of "digital" for electronic and "digit" for finger with "signature." If you ask for a "fignature and date," it sounds like something you'd eat.
JAMES LILEKS
Heard a new word or phrase you want us to dissect? Let us know at word@startribune.com. Check out previous entries at startribune.com/word.
More from Star Tribune
More from Star Tribune
More from Star Tribune
More From Star Tribune
More From Variety
Nation
Today in History: April 27, Magellan killed in the Philippines
Today in History
Business
The summer after Barbenheimer and the strikes, Hollywood charts a new course
'' Barbenheimer '' is a hard act to follow. But as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by the strikes, it's worth remembering the classic William Goldman quote about what works: ''Nobody knows anything.''
Home & Garden
Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck lists 'resort-style' Edina home for $3.9 million
The award-winning house was built in a French European-meets-California modern style.
World
Mexican film wins top prize at Moscow International Film Festival while major studios boycott Russia
A Mexican film has won the top prize Friday at the Moscow International Film Festival, which took place as major Western studios boycott the Russian market and as Russia's war in Ukraine grinds into its third year.
Variety
Why you might have heard Paul Simon's 'The Sound of Silence' at Spanish Mass
One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific version of the Our Father.
