thumbload

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noun

An amount equal to a thumb; a thumb's worth (of volume, pressure, etc).

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Meanings

nounthumbload (plural thumbloads)

plural thumbloads

  1. An amount equal to a thumb; a thumb's worth (of volume, pressure, etc).

    I have a whole thumbload of film.

    1979, Mary Ellen Moore, The Robin Williams Scrapbook, →ISBN, page 80
    3 more examples

    […] gathering a thumbload of fallen particles and pressed them into the tiny gap at one side of the grille, then smoothed it out, his thumb a trowel.

    2012 March 14, J. Campbell Bruce, Escape from Alcatraz: The True Crime Classic, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 174

    […] if you have no honey, three thumbloads of sugar, and when the water boils, pour it slow till the fumes rise and make your mouth water.

    2013 August 6, David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN

    I'm applying a thumbload of pressure.

    2025 July 30, Sorted Food, 22:56 from the start, in Can Antique Gadgets Handle Modern Cooking?

Origin

From thumb + load.

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APA

thumbload. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thumbload

MLA

“thumbload.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thumbload. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thumbload,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thumbload.

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