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thumbholing

thumbholing is the present participle and gerund of thumbhole.

Meaning of thumbhole

Verb

thumbhole (third-person singular simple present thumbholes, present participle thumbholing, simple past and past participle thumbholed)

  1. (transitive) To cut thumbholes (for carrying) in the lids of boxes.

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Questions about thumbholing

What is thumbholing the present participle and gerund of?
Thumbholing is the present participle and gerund of thumbhole.

Words near thumbholing in the dictionary

  1. thumbhole
  2. thumbholed
  3. thumbholer
  4. thumbholers
  5. thumbholes
  6. thumbholing
  7. thumbier
  8. thumbies
  9. thumbiest
  10. thumbikin
  11. thumbikins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbholing (page history and authors); thumbhole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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