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Thumby

//ˈθʌmi// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 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."

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From thumb + -y/-ie (diminutive suffix).

Etymology 2

From thumb + -y.

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