Noun: thumbnail
| Singular | thumbnail |
| Plural | thumbnails |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like thumbnail
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From thumb + nail. Compare West Frisian tommeneil (“thumbnail”), Dutch duimnagel (“thumbnail”), German Daumennagel (“thumbnail”).
2. The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s. See: German Nouns '
Daumennagel'.