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Verb
fash one's thumb (third-person singular simple present fashes one's thumb, present participle fashing one's thumb, simple past and past participle fashed one's thumb)
- (Scotland, idiomatic, dated) To bother oneself; to worry about something.
1871, Charles Gibbon, For lack of gold, page 36:As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk.
- a. 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)
- How I heard of your imprisonment or the wrong intended ye, never fash your thumb