英语词汇“thumby”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	thumby
释义	▪ I. thumby, n. colloq.\|ˈθʌmɪ\| Also thummy, -ie. [f. thumb n. + -y, dim. suffix.] A little thumb; a kind of pet-name for the thumb. 1811W. Tennant Anster Concert in Life (1861) 26 He never fashed his thummie.1859Lang Wand. India 265 The little finger replied: ‘Who told you so, Thummy, Thummy?’1866‘R. B. Paul’ Let. in Mem. xx. (1872) 353 Now thumby is beginning to make a grumble. ▪ II. thumby, a. colloq.\|ˈθʌmɪ\| [f. thumb n. + -y¹.] 1. Soiled by thumb-marks. 1900Daily News 11 Jan. 7/2 The report books look as prosaic as any ordinary account books, only very black and ‘thumby’. 2. Clumsy, ‘all thumbs’. Cf. thumb n. 5 c. 1909R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 103 One day we was kiddin' him about bein' so thumby.1915Pearson's Mag. XXXIX. 28 You have no idea how thumby your fingers are when fixing a bike under shrapnel fire.1939X. Herbert Capricornia ix. 122 The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands.1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry vi. 59 Their efficiency is affected when..they are known to be..awkward,..numb-pawed, or thumby.
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