How to pronounce thumb

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What thumb means

verb

Most people know thumb in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To flip quickly through the pages of a book

In a sentence: While she waited at the library, Mia liked to thumb through the joke books.

Where it comes from: It is the same word as the thumb on your hand, from Old English thuma. That word goes back to a very old root meaning to grow.

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