well-thumbed

adjective

well thumbed when postpositive (of a copy of a book) having the pages marked from frequent turning

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He opens the briefcase to reveal hundreds of well-thumbed sheets of paper filled with typewritten words.

His well-thumbed copy of Herodotus, with its intriguing mementos inside, underscores the historic context.

He jerked open the table drawer and fetched out a well-thumbed pack of cards, which he flung on the green cloth.

Sometimes in winter when he did not have to go to sea he read one of the well-thumbed volumes by the aid of a tallow dip.

Your own dingy well-thumbed Bayle or Moreri possibly cost you two or three pounds; his cost forty or fifty.

These books were to remain his lifelong possession and to be passed on, well-thumbed, to his son more than half a century later.

Ladies, as I said, seldom buy new books; they seem to prefer reading novels that others have well thumbed.

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