THUMBING

Definition: THUMBING

THUMBING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Thumb

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "THUMBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

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Usage Frequency: THUMBING

"THUMBING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "THUMBING" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	97.67%	42	52,864
Noun (singular)	2.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: THUMBING

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "THUMBING": fist-thumbing, nose-thumbing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THUMBING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
thumbing	4
lyrics thumbing way	3
tab thumbing way	3
jam lyrics pearl thumbing way	3
guitar tab thumbing way	2
jam pearl tab thumbing way	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: THUMBING

Language		Translations for "THUMBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		用姆指翻动 (thumbed). (various references)

Dutch		mondblazen volgens de duimmethode (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)

Finnish		peukaloilmapuhallus (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)

French		soufflage au pouce (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)

German		abgreifend. (various references)

Greek		Φύσημα με ατμοποίηση (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)

Italian		soffiatura a spanne (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)

Korean		엄지손가락으로 만짐. (various references)

Pig Latin		umbingthay

Portuguese		sopragem pelo método do polegar (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)

Spanish		soplado por el método del pulgar (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)

Swedish		blåsning genom tummetoden (blowing by the thumbing method). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: THUMBING

Misspellings
	"THUMBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thumming. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "THUMBING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "THUMBING" (pronounced thu"ming)
4	-u" m i ng	becoming, coming, drumming, dumbing, forthcoming, humming, numbing, plumbing, strumming, succumbing, summing, unbecoming.
3	-m i ng	acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: THUMBING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-m-n-t-u"
	-2 letters: muting, tubing.
	-3 letters: bight, might, night, thing, thumb.
	-4 letters: bhut, bint, bung, bunt, hint, hung, hunt, mint, muni, nigh, numb, thin, thug, ting, tung, unit.
	-5 letters: big, bin, bit, bug, bum, bun, but, ghi, gib, gin, git, gnu, gum, gun, gut, him, hin, hit, hub, hug, hum, hun, hut, mib, mig, mug, mun, mut.
	Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-m-n-t-u"
	+2 letters: bethumping.
	+3 letters: badmouthing.
	+4 letters: thumbtacking.
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