thumber
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]thumber (plural thumbers)
- One who thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.).
- 2008 April 18, Charles Mcgrath, “The Keeper (See: Steward, Caretaker) of Synonyms”, in New York Times[1]:
- Dylan Thomas was another thesaurus thumber, and in his work too the words it supplied were not always improvements.
- One who thumbs a lift; a hitchhiker.
- 1932, Bus transportation: Volume 11:
- Several months ago every city and many of the towns in which we operate were flooded with a cartoon flyer warning autoists of the legal risks involved in picking up thumbers.