• Tom played a waltz on the piano using only his thumbs and Mary was very impressed.
  • - The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
  • Primatologists and hand research pioneers John and Prudence Napier defined opposition as: "A movement by which the pulp surface of the thumb is placed...
  • Thumb definition: the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger..
  • 12. thumb one's nose at to deride or mock, esp by placing the thumb on the nose with fingers extended.
  • Arguing one’s case without anyone’s thumbs being placed on the scale is speech.
  • 2. the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb. 3. a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
  • From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
  • THUMB definition: 1. the short, thick finger on the side of your hand that makes it possible to hold and pick things….
  • : to ask for or get a ride in a passing vehicle by sticking out your arm with your thumb up as you stand on the side of the road : hitchhike.