Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no thumbs: as, the thumbed and thumbless spider-monkeys. See Ateles, Brachyteles, and cut under
spider-monkey . - Having no hallux, or hind toe, as a bird.
- Clumsy; awkward; unskilful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a thumb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
thumbs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Madonna's always had her own style, and it's not thumbless gloves and over-bangled accessories.
Diane Gilman: The Material Girl's Guide to Turning Your Midlife Crisis Into a Halftime Show Diane Gilman 2012
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Madonna's always had her own style, and it's not thumbless gloves and over-bangled accessories.
Diane Gilman: The Material Girl's Guide to Turning Your Midlife Crisis Into a Halftime Show Diane Gilman 2012
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In other words, Kafka goes as far as he can into a truly thumbless, doggy world view.
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary by David Sedaris – review Toby Litt 2010
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To put it another way, are these thumbless animals facing animal dilemmas or are they thumb-possessing human beings being referred to as animals simply for the sake of turning a story into a fable?
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary by David Sedaris – review Toby Litt 2010
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To lose the use of your hands to typing is no big deal, but to be a thumbless BlackBerry/iPhone addict is divine.
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Animals kept in barren zoo enclosures often pace madly—and, thumbless, have twiddle-equivalents: licking or chewing skin or fur obsessively and constantly, pulling out their own feathers, rubbing their ears or face, rocking back and forth.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Animals kept in barren zoo enclosures often pace madly—and, thumbless, have twiddle-equivalents: licking or chewing skin or fur obsessively and constantly, pulling out their own feathers, rubbing their ears or face, rocking back and forth.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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I swear I saw one campaigning for the rights of blind midget puppies, or thumbless pianists, or something.
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005
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Out from the sparkling mist stretched two hands, enormously long, six-fingered, thumbless, a faint tracery of golden scales upon their white backs, utterly unhuman and still in some strange way beautiful, radiating power and — all womanly!
The Moon Pool 2004
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Tavara bandaged her hands with a thick black foul-smelling salve that felt cold and gluey, followed by yards and yards of bandage going halfway up her arms until her hands resembled thumbless boxing gloves.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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