miller's thumb

English

Noun

miller's thumb (plural miller's thumbs)

  1. European bullhead.
    • 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe:
      in 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.
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