thumby
noun/ˈθʌmi/
Etymology
Definitions
A little thumb
A little thumb; diminutive term for thumb.
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."
- The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back.
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for thumby. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA