thoome

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English thombe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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thoome

  1. (anatomy) thumb

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72