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fashes one's thumb

fashes one's thumb is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fash one's thumb.

Meaning of fash one's thumb

Verb

fash one's thumb (third-person singular simple present fashes one's thumb, present participle fashing one's thumb, simple past and past participle fashed one's thumb)

  1. (Scotland, dated, idiomatic) To bother oneself; to worry about something.
    • As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk.1871, Charles Gibbon, For lack of gold, page 36

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Fashes one's thumb is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fash one's thumb.

Words near fashes one's thumb in the dictionary

  1. fashed
  2. fashed one's thumb
  3. fasheries
  4. fashery
  5. fashes
  6. fashes one's thumb
  7. fashied
  8. fashier
  9. fashies
  10. fashiest
  11. fashin

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