fash one's thumb

English

Verb

fash one's thumb (third-person singular simple present fashes one's thumb, present participle fashing one's thumb, simple past and past participle fashed one's thumb)

1. (Scotland, idiomatic, dated) To bother oneself; to worry about something.
   • 1871, Charles Gibbon, For lack of gold, page 36:

     As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk.

   • a. 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)

     How I heard of your imprisonment or the wrong intended ye, never fash your thumb […]