Thumbing [verb]
Definition of Thumbing:
make request, suggestion
Synonyms of Thumbing:
● Feel
● Advise
● Greet
● Address
● Beseech
● Implore
● Tumble
● Propose
● Plead
● Confer
● Entreat
● Accost
● Consult
● Thumb
● Apply to
● Speak to
● Talk to
Sentence/Example of Thumbing:
Trask slipped the pistol from his holster, thumbing off the safety.
Nuclear particles are ignored by it; it just sits there thumbing its nose at us.
Dancing-women followed, keeping step to the thumbing of their tambours.
After thumbing its pages for a moment, he found a place and began to read.
"And poo-poo for you," said Murray, thumbing his nose at the apparition.
Dan, thumbing through the loose papers on the table, made no reply.
The proletaire have risen and are thumbing their nose at the gods.
The man opposite her was just thumbing his last morsel of pie.
I was winner and thumbing my chips, when bang went a gun at the other table.
"Here's your money," he said, thumbing over the bills clumsily and regretfully.