Definitions for thumbs

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Spelling: [thuhm]

IPA: /θʌm/

Thumbs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in thumbs (bhmstu).

Definitions for thumbs

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 thumbs

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 thumbs

When we nodded, she broke into a wide grin, gestured with two thumbs up, and finished off with a high-five.

We cannot dither, we cannot just twiddle our thumbs, or wait and see.

An' they say one o' his thumbs was bigger'n the hand o' Providence.

I'll bet they could be hard as nails to anybody they had under their thumbs.

She attended the gladiatorial contests and played with her thumbs.

Ebert gave James the proverbial two thumbs up, and the project was a go.

Perhaps throwing up your thumbs during a picnic lunch on Serengeti.

Lute's fingers were so eager to grasp that letter that they were all thumbs.

Vatican thumbs its nose at UN report blasting them for covering up sex crimes.

He suggested it, by creasing his face with his two thumbs, from the corners of his mouth to his ears.