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thumbier

thumbier is the comparative form of thumby.

Meaning of thumby

Adjective

thumby (comparative thumbier, superlative thumbiest)

  1. Clumsy, awkward, maladroit, not dextrous, all thumbs.
    • "Well, I don't tease anybody but the men. I don't tease father or mother or you,—but men are fair game; they are such thumby, blundering creatures, and we can confuse them so."1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 29, in The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine, Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co
  2. Dirtied by thumb marks.
    • He would distinguish, too, between a library and a news-room, and would find no great attraction in the prospect of supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines.1914, H.G. Wells, “The Philosopher's Public Library”, in Social Forces in England and America, New York & London: Harper & Bros., page 203

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Questions about thumbier

What is thumbier the comparative form of?
Thumbier is the comparative form of thumby.

Words near thumbier in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbier (page history and authors); thumby (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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