Thumb Definition
- pollex
- quarter round
- ovolo
- governed
- controlled
- under one's control
- inept
- clumsy
- fumbling
- preaxial digit
- first digit
- Lacking physical coordination, skill, or grace; clumsy.
- To express scorn or ridicule, often by placing the thumb on the nose and wiggling the fingers.
- Under the control of someone; subordinate to.
- clumsy; fumbling
- to raise one's thumb to the nose with the fingers extended, as a coarse gesture of defiance or contempt
- to express defiance or contempt
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Thumb
- all thumbs
- thumb (one's) nose
- under (someone's) thumb
- all thumbs
- thumb one's nose
- thumbs down
- thumbs up
- thumb through
- under someone's thumb
Origin of Thumb
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From Middle English thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (cf. West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Dumen, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme), from Proto-Indo-European *tÅ«m- (“to grow") (cf. Welsh tyfu (“to grow"), Latin tumÄ“re (“to swell"), Albanian thumb (“a sting, protuberance"), Lithuanian tumÄ—ti (“to thicken, clot"), Ancient Greek týmbos 'burial mound', Avestan tÅ«ma 'strong', Sanskrit túmras 'strong, thick').
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English thūma teuə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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