miller's thumb

noun

The European bullhead (“a species of fish, Cottus gobio”).

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Meanings

nounmiller's thumb (plural miller's thumbs)

plural miller's thumbs

  1. The European bullhead (“a species of fish, Cottus gobio”).

    [I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.

    1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1

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Also see
european bullhead
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