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thumby¹

  • /ˈθʌmi/

noun thumbies

  1. slang A little thumb; diminutive term for thumb.

    Similar: pollex, thumb

thumby²

  • /ˈθʌmi/

adjective thumbier · thumbiest

  1. Clumsy, awkward, maladroit, not dextrous, all thumbs. "Well, I don't tease anybody but the men. I don't tease father or mother or you,—but men are fair game; they are such thumby, blundering creatures, and we can confuse them so."
  2. Dirtied by thumb marks. He would distinguish, too, between a library and a news-room, and would find no great attraction in the prospect of supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines.

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@misc{thumby_2026,
  title = {thumby},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thumby},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}