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say it: thuhmd
thumbed is an adjective meaning "(of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning". It is pronounced /ˈθʌmd/ — thuhmd. It carries one recorded sense.
(of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning
“well-thumbed pages of the dictionary”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thumbed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.