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1. Oxford Dictionary

   thumb

   • IPA[θʌm]

   英式

   • n.
     the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.；the digit of primates or other mammals that corresponds to the human thumb.
   • v.
     press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb；use one's thumb to indicate something

   • verb: thumb, 3rd person present: thumbs, gerund or present participle: thumbing, past tense: thumbed, past participle: thumbed

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.
   • ▪ the digit of primates or other mammals that corresponds to the human thumb.
   • ▪ the part of a glove that covers the thumb.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb as soon as she thumbed the button, the door slid open 同義詞 press, push (down), depress, lean on
   • ▪ use one's thumb to indicate something he thumbed towards the men behind him
   • 2. turn over (pages) with or as if with one's thumb I've thumbed my address book and found quite a range of smaller hotels he was thumbing through 同義詞 leaf, flick, flip, skim, browse, ... 更多glance, look, riffle, read, scan, dip into, run one's eye over, have a look at, peruse
   • ▪ wear or soil (a book's pages) by repeated handling his dictionaries were thumbed and ink-stained
   • 3. request or obtain (a free ride in a passing vehicle) by signalling with one's thumb three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift he was thumbing his way across France 同義詞 hitch-hike, ask for, request, signal for, get, ... 更多obtain, informalhitch, hitch a lift

   片語

   • be all thumbs
   • thumb one's nose at
   • thumbs down
   • thumbs up
   • under someone's thumb