Central Franconian
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Alternative forms
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Etymology
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From Middle High German dūme.
Pronunciation
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Dumme m (plural Dumme, diminutive Dümmche)
- (most of Ripuarian) thumb
1981, “Jupp”[1]performed by BAP:Un üvverhaup die dausend Fraue, die e kannt.
Un die Messerstecherei, zick dä dä Dumme fählt an singer räächte Hand.- And after all those thousand women that he knew.
And that knifing since which the thumb is missing from his right hand.