fash one's thumb

verb

To bother oneself; to worry about something.

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Meanings

verbfash one's thumb (third-person singular simple present fashes one's thumb, present participle fashing one's thumb, simple past and past participle fashed one's thumb)

present singular third person fashes one's thumb · participle present fashing one's thumb · participle past fashed one's thumb · past fashed one's thumb

  1. ScotlanddatedidiomaticTo bother oneself; to worry about something.

    How I heard of your imprisonment or the wrong intended ye, never fash your thumb […]

    a. 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)
    1 more example

    As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk.

    1871, Charles Gibbon, For lack of gold, page 36
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