thumber

Etymology

From thumb + -er.

thumber means one who thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

noun

One who thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.).“Dylan Thomas was another thesaurus thumber, and in his work too the words it supplied were not always improvements.”
One who thumbs a lift; a hitchhiker.“Several months ago every city and many of the towns in which we operate were flooded with a cartoon flyer warning autoists of the legal risks involved in picking up thumbers.”