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thumby
発音
語源 1
From thumb + -y/-ie (diminutive suffix).
語源 2
From thumb + -y.
形容詞
thumby (comparative thumbier, superlative thumbiest)
- Clumsy, awkward, maladroit, not dextrous, all thumbs
- 1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine, Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Chapter 29, [1]
- 1904, H.G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, Book I, Chapter 1 [2]
- […] he was propounding an improvement of Professor Armstrong's Heuristic method, whereby at the cost of three or four hundred pounds' worth of apparatus, a total neglect of all other studies and the undivided attention of a teacher of exceptional gifts, an average child might with a peculiar sort of thumby thoroughness learn in the course of ten or twelve years almost as much chemistry as one could get in one of those objectionable shilling text-books that were then so common….
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 147-8, [3]
- 1983, Richard Schickel, Cary Grant: A Celebration, New York: Hachette, 2009, Chapter 1, [4]
- For as long as we have known him—and for most of us that has been for the lengths of our lifetimes—he has been the object of, and inspiration for, a delight so innocent and perfect that the attempt to analyse its sources seems an act of ingratitude, a laying on of thumby hands that will inevitably bollix the job.
- 2006, Robert Schmuhl, In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures, University of Notre Dame Press, p.160, [5]
- 2015, Julie Lawson, A Ribbon of Shining Steel: The Railway Diary of Kate Cameron, Yale, British Columbia, 1882, Dear Canada series, Scholastic Canada, [6]
- Rachel was all thumbs when it came to embroidery, even thumbier than me.
- Dirtied by thumb marks
- 1914, H.G. Wells, Social Forces in England and America, New York & London: Harper & Bros., "The Philosopher's Public Library," p. 203, [7]
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thumbier
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thumbiest
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pointling
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thumbies
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Thesaurus:finger
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