unthumbedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unthumbed (not comparable)

1. Not thumbed.
   • 1881, Henry James, chapter V, in The Portrait of a Lady‎^[1], volume 1, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company:

     At the end of his life he had become, on his own ground, as mellow as he was rich; he combined consummate shrewdness with the disposition superficially to fraternise, and his "social position," on which he had never wasted a care, had the firm perfection of an unthumbed fruit.

   • 1918, Fannie Hurst, Gaslight Sonatas‎^[2]:

     Beside the table, bare except for the formal, unthumbed Bible, Mrs. Horowitz rattled out a paper, her near-sighted eyes traveling back and forth across the page.