thumbs

We have found lemma(root) word of thumbs : thumb.

Definitions


[θʌm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them


Phrases:
- be all thumbs
- thumb one's nose at
- thumbs down
- thumbs up
- under someone's thumb

Origin:
Old English thūma, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch duim and German Daumen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin tumere ‘to swell’. The verb dates from the late 16th century, first in the sense ‘play (a musical instrument) with the thumbs’


[θʌm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb
(e.g: as soon as she thumbed the button, the door slid open)

- turn over (pages) with or as if with one's thumb
(e.g: I've thumbed my address book and found quite a range of smaller hotels)

- request or obtain (a free ride in a passing vehicle) by signalling with one's thumb
(e.g: three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift)


Phrases:
- be all thumbs
- thumb one's nose at
- thumbs down
- thumbs up
- under someone's thumb

Origin:
Old English thūma, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch duim and German Daumen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin tumere ‘to swell’. The verb dates from the late 16th century, first in the sense ‘play (a musical instrument) with the thumbs’




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