n.
An error made while using the thumbs to type, particularly on a mobile device keypad. [Blend of thumb and typo.]
Example Citations:
How do you get rid of "thumbos," those cellphone message typos? Practice. And some handy tips.
—" Touch Type With Your Thumbs: http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Technology/20100317/9225679/Touch-Type-With-Your-Thumbs.htm," One News Page, March 17, 2010
Sent from my Palm Pre. Forgive thumbos.
—Jennifer 8. Lee, jenny8lee.com: http://jenny8lee.com/\#23d/posterous, Posterous, March 17, 2010
Earliest Citation:
thumbo. A typographical error made while using thumbs only to text mesage [sic].
—" thumbo: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thumbo," Urban Dictionary, October 3, 2009
Notes:
Here's an earlier instance of the word, although in this case the writer is referring to an image of a thumb visible in a scanned document:
I didn't notice the "typo" ("thumbo?") in the lower right corner of the first page until i scrolled down to the second page.
—rtdunham, " Google books iPhone-friendly; Amazon Kindle books next?: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showpost.php?p=1373660&postcount=21," AppleInsider, February 7, 2009
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What's all this "Word Blending" shite? The Oxford Dictionary of English contains a prodigious amount (twenty volumes) of glorious, spellbinding and, lets face it, perfectly apt words (plus at least another three volumes of additions.) So, why not ditch the 'thumbo's and 'churnalism's in favour of a few endangered (and actually useful) words. Not that I mind neologising of course, but 'jihobbyinst'? Really? It doesn't exactly purvey a sense of demagoguery, does it?
–CONCERNED–
New words. 2013.