Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To soil or mark with frequent thumbing, as in turning the leaves of a much-read or much-studied book.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To take hold of or
mark with thethumbs ;soil or mark with frequent thumbing.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From be- + thumb.
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