unthumbed
English
Etymology
un- + thumbed
Adjective
unthumbed (not comparable)
- Not thumbed.
- 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady:
- At the end of his life he had become, on his own ground, as mellow as he was rich; he combined consummate shrewdness with the disposition superficially to fraternise, and his "social position," on which he had never wasted a care, had the firm perfection of an unthumbed fruit.
- 1918, Fannie Hurst, Gaslight Sonatas:
- Beside the table, bare except for the formal, unthumbed Bible, Mrs. Horowitz rattled out a paper, her near-sighted eyes traveling back and forth across the page.
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