English
thimbled
From thimble + -ed.
Formed from thimble + -ed
Proto-Indo-European *tum- ‘to swell’
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Proto-West Germanic *þūmō ‘thumb’
Old English þūma ‘thumb’
Old English þȳmel ‘thimble, thumbstall’
Middle English thymbyll
English thimble
Today it means
adj Of a finger: having a thimble (“cup-shaped cap used in sewing to push the needle through material”) on the tip; of a person: wearing a thimble on one's finger.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / thimbled