Definitions
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- noun One who
thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.). - noun One who
thumbs a lift ; ahitchhiker .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He also became a high-profile nose-thumber at justice.
Two Views On Ronnie Biggs Jack of Kent 2009
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So, um, tulip bulb idea, gets planted, I pick it, cause I'm a green thumber like that.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2002
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"However, the ANC wants to increase thumber of members of regional councils to such a point that AmaKhosi will become totally irrelevant within the work of such councils," the IFP leader said.
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Paxton, a Victorian architect and green-thumber, designed England's Crystal Palace in 1851; check out his botanical prints on shigitatsu.com.
NYT > Home Page By S. S. FAIR 2011
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"I'd have been the thumber," he said with a smile.
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Okay, who is the mysterious @#$% red-thumber downer on everything??
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It really is mind boggling, and amazing. millertime3852 wrote: Rocket, I was just trying to start a fight with the random thumber ... to no avail.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local millertime3852 2010
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Okay, who is the mysterious @#$% red-thumber downer on everything??
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It really is mind boggling, and amazing. millertime3852 wrote: Rocket, I was just trying to start a fight with the random thumber ... to no avail.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local millertime3852 2010
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It really is mind boggling, and amazing. millertime3852 wrote: Rocket, I was just trying to start a fight with the random thumber ... to no avail.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local aeroman 2010
qroqqa commented on the word thumber
taster of rare wines, thumber of rarer books and old wives' tales
—Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
November 18, 2008