thumber

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.).
    — Dylan Thomas was another thesaurus thumber, and in his work too the words it supplied were not always improvements.
  2. One who thumbs a lift; a hitchhiker.
    — 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.

词形变化

thumbers plural

词源

From thumb + -er.
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