thumbo
a typing mistake in a text message
TRANSLATION
thumbo = ein Tippfehler bei einer SMS --- GOOGLE INDEX thumbo: approximately 27,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Those of us blessed with thumbs on the chubby side, or perhaps not as dextrous as we might like, will be familiar with the concept of the thumbo."
BuzzWord - Macmillan Dictionary
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How do you get rid of THUMBOS?
(from an Internet forum)
BuzzWord - Macmillan Dictionary
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How do you get rid of THUMBOS?
(from an Internet forum)
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thumbo (combination of thumb and typo)
noun
- an error made while using the thumbs to type, particularly on a mobile device keypad
(Word Spy)
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Thumbo has been around for the last year or so, popping up in the popular web-based Urban Dictionary in October 2009. Early indications suggest that the plural will be formed as thumbos (compare avocados, cellos), rather than thumboes (compare potatoes, tomatoes etc).
The term is a combination of the words thumb and typo. Typo refers to a small mistake in a printed document, and dates back to the late 19th century, when it first appeared as an abbreviation for the expression typographical error.
Thumbo follows in the footsteps of other coinages relating to thumb on keyboard problems, such as the 1990s Nintendo thumb, referring to the repetitive strain injury caused by persistent use of video game controllers. This was later followed by BlackBerry thumb, a similar ailment relating to compulsive use of handheld PDAs like the BlackBerry®.
On the same theme, the expression thumb generation first appeared in the early noughties to describe the generation born after 1985, people who have never known a world in which mobile phones and other electronic devices weren't a fundamental part of everyday life.
Kerry Maxwell
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/buzzword/entries/thumbo.html
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people don't mind making thumbos when texting."
noun
- an error made while using the thumbs to type, particularly on a mobile device keypad
(Word Spy)
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Thumbo has been around for the last year or so, popping up in the popular web-based Urban Dictionary in October 2009. Early indications suggest that the plural will be formed as thumbos (compare avocados, cellos), rather than thumboes (compare potatoes, tomatoes etc).
The term is a combination of the words thumb and typo. Typo refers to a small mistake in a printed document, and dates back to the late 19th century, when it first appeared as an abbreviation for the expression typographical error.
Thumbo follows in the footsteps of other coinages relating to thumb on keyboard problems, such as the 1990s Nintendo thumb, referring to the repetitive strain injury caused by persistent use of video game controllers. This was later followed by BlackBerry thumb, a similar ailment relating to compulsive use of handheld PDAs like the BlackBerry®.
On the same theme, the expression thumb generation first appeared in the early noughties to describe the generation born after 1985, people who have never known a world in which mobile phones and other electronic devices weren't a fundamental part of everyday life.
Kerry Maxwell
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/buzzword/entries/thumbo.html
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people don't mind making thumbos when texting."
