Definitions for thumb

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Spelling: [thuhm]

IPA: /θʌm/

Thumb is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in thumb (bhmtu).

Definitions for thumb

noun

1. the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
2. the corresponding digit in other animals; pollex.
3. the part of a glove or mitten for containing this digit.
4. Architecture. an ovolo or echinus molding.

Idioms

1. all thumbs, awkward; clumsy; bungling:
2. thumb one's nose, to put one's thumb to one's nose and extend the fingers as a crudely defiant or contemptuous gesture. to express defiance or contempt; dismiss or reject contemptuously.
3. thumbs down, a gesture or expression of dissent or disapproval:
4. thumbs up, a gesture or expression of assent or approval.
5. under one's thumb, under the power or influence of; subordinate to. Also, under the thumb of.

verb (used with object)

1. to soil or wear with the thumbs in handling, as the pages of a book.
2. to glance through (the pages of a book, leaflet, etc.) quickly.
3. to play (a guitar or other instrument) with or as with the thumbs.
4. (of a hitchhiker) to solicit or get (a ride) by pointing the thumb in the desired direction of travel.

Origin of thumb

before 900; Middle English; Old English thūma; cognate with Dutch duim, Old Saxon, Old High German dūmo (German Daumen), Old Norse thumall; akin to Latin tumēre to swell (Examples for thumb

Pete stuck his thumb out at the age of 17 and hitch hiked out of Birmingham, England.

By the awkwardness of the unpacker, the statue's thumb was broken.

Let me bite my lip and thrust out my thumb and confess: I did not have literary expectations of that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

He's under that woman's thumb, of course, and she's told him he mustn't say a word.

All I have been able to find is a cute picture of Spears and Garnett with two comments and 30-some thumb icons of approval.

He had only one tooth, and he ate by using his thumb as a second incisor.

"All gettee out," he said, jerking his thumb in the direction of the court of mystery.

In the meantime, certain rules of thumb about drone use are self-evident.

She keeps Jenkins under her thumb, just as Galloway keeps me.

The boy pointed with his thumb to the door of the cashier's office.