Thumbed

Definition: Thumbed

Thumbed

Adjective

1. (of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning; "well-thumbed pages of the dictionary".

Date "thumbed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Thumbed

Synonyms by domain: bull nose (industry, metallurgy), elevator (computing), elevator box, slider, thumb (european union, medicinecomputingindustry, metallurgy), vertical scroll box (computing).

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Crosswords: Thumbed

English words defined with "thumbed": flick, flip ♦ leaf ♦ Riff, riffle ♦ thumb. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thumbed

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained, (Me & Bobby McGee; performing artist: Janis Joplin)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Thumbed

"Thumbed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Thumbed" is used about 52 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 (past tense)	84.62%	44	51,500
Adjective (general or positive)	11.54%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (past participle)	3.85%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	52	N/A

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

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Expressions: Thumbed

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "thumbed": much-thumbed, well-thumbed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thumbed

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
free thumbed xxx	2
thumbed	2
links teen thumbed	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Thumbed

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

Finnish		peukalokyyti (a lift, thumbed ride). (various references)

German		griff ab. (various references)

Korean		엄지손가락으로 만지는. (various references)

Pig Latin		umbedthay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thumbed

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pollex. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Thumbed

Misspellings
	"Thumbed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Thiebaud, thube, thume, Tshombe, tummed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Thumbed"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thumbed" (pronounced thu"md)
3	-u" m d	bummed, drummed, gummed, numbed, plumbed, succumbed, summed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Thumbed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-h-m-t-u"
	-2 letters: debut, muted, thumb, tubed.
	-3 letters: bedu, beth, bhut, bute, debt, duet, dumb, hued, meth, mute, them, thud, tube.
	-4 letters: bed, bet, bud, bum, but, deb, dub, due, duh, edh, emu, eth, hem, het, hub, hue, hum, hut, med, met, mud, mut, ted, the, tub.
	-5 letters: be, de, ed, eh, em, et, he, hm, me.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-h-m-t-u"
	+2 letters: bethumped.
	+3 letters: badmouthed, bigmouthed.
	+4 letters: debouchment, thumbtacked.
	+5 letters: debouchments, mouthbreeder.
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