MDDM pollex

[Doug Millison]

Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:02:55 -0400
From: Wordsmith <wsmith at wordsmith.org>
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--pollex


pollex (POL-eks) noun, plural pollices

   The thumb.

[From Latin.]

Hallux is the equivalent term for the big toe.

   "He caught his thumb between his gun and a sharp rock. It was a nasty
   cut spurting blood. I said, `Ben, that's it. We've got to get you to
   a doctor.'
   "`Heck no, let's get a turkey first,' answered Ben, quickly wrapping his
   dripping pollex with a handkerchief."
   Fred LeBrun, Just Another Turkey Shoot, The Times Union (Albany, NY)
   Nov 13, 1997.

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