thumbable

English

Etymology

thumb + -able

Adjective

thumbable (comparative more thumbable, superlative most thumbable)

  1. Capable of being handled, manipulated, or operated with a thumb or thumbs.
  2. (of a book) Compellingly readable or easy to thumb through.
    • 1905 February 25, H. W. Boynton, “Little Burney”, in The New York Times:
      It is for these things that we give the "Diary" a place of honor among thumbable volumes on our shelves.
    • 2001, Julie Kaewert, Unsigned: A Booklover's Mystery, Bantam Books, page 13:
      Only London's finest collection of comfortable, thumbable antiquarian books, I thought, as I watched him sink into a chair near the empty fireplace.

Quotations

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