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prefixattested in dialogue

The ball of the thumb, or the muscle controlling it.

prefix

  1. 1

    archaicThe palm of the hand or sole of the foot.

  2. 2

    The ball of the thumb, or the muscle controlling it.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θέναρ (thénar).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).