thumb-sized
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About the size of a human thumb
- adjective
- /θʌm saɪzd/
:
del tamaño de un pulgar
- He reached down to flick a thumb-sized cockroach that had just wandered boldly onto the table before him.
- a thumb-sized device
Examples
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The gardener planted a thumb-sized seed that quickly grew into a beautiful flower.
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Noah pops a thumb-sized berry in his mouth.
Fiction book (1992) -
His eyehole held a thumb-sized wedge of clay.
Fiction book (1990) -
Aino slammed a thumb-sized cartridge into the breech and stood up.
Fiction book (1996) -
Felibien keeps in a drawer under the counter beneath a cardboard box of squashed, thumb-sized dolls.
Fiction book (1991) -
Into a pint glass jar, thinly slice one organic lemon, well washed, plus a thumb-sized knob of fresh ginger, also thinly sliced.
Blog text (10) -
She found a thumb-sized stone while hiking on the beach.
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The treasure map showed a thumb-sized mark indicating the buried chest.
How Big
Surface Forms
thumb-sized positive
Morphology
Etymology
Thumb-sized combines thumb (the short, strong finger) and -sized meaning 'having the size of', so it means 'about the size of a thumb'.