thumbnail
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈθʌmˌneɪl/
:
uña del pulgar
- After slicing the fruit, he wiped his hands on his jeans and looked at his thumbnail for any sticky residue.
- biting her thumbnail
- chewing her thumbnail
- left thumbnail
I'll use a piece of like a like a thumbnail that I bite off as like a little as like a little toothpick.
- I'll use a piece of like a like a thumbnail that I bite off as like a little as like a little toothpick.
- So like around the thumbnail, for instance, or the the hand that's the knuckles of the hand that's holding the sword.
Examples
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His left thumbnail was deformed because a peach can fell on it when he was 7.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ruby Ann still sits there, biting her thumbnail, clutching her purse in her lap.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Do you like it?" Richard says and begins to draw a face on his thumbnail.
Fiction book (1990) -
The Lieutenant stood probing between two of his teeth with a thumbnail, deep in thought.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Dub popped a wooden match with his thumbnail and lit his cigarette."
Fiction book (1994) -
"Could that be blood?" Leaphorn looked at it, scraped it with a thumbnail, and showed the result to Toddy.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her cheeks redden as she slits open a pod with her thumbnail and strips out the peas.
Fiction book (1990) -
He nervously bit his thumbnail while waiting for the interview to start.
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She used her thumbnail to open the plastic packaging.
Synonyms
283
1.0
A hard flat covering on the end of a finger or toe that protects it
164
1.0
Hard slightly curved part at the tip of a finger
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word thumbnail comes from the simple parts thumb ('a short finger') and nail ('the hard plate on the finger'), so thumbnail means the nail on the thumb.