miller's thumb
English
Noun
miller's thumb (plural miller's thumbs)
- European bullhead.
- 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe:
- in my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.
- 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe: