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Tom Thumb   /tɑm θəm/   Listen
Tom Thumb

noun
1.
An imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb.
2.
A very small person.





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"Tom Thumb" Quotes from Famous Books



... tam antiquis quam novis longe anteponendum;" nay, Dr B—— hath pronounced, "Citius Maevii Aeneadem quam Scribleri istrus tragoediam hanc crediderium, cujus autorem Senecam ipsum tradidisse haud dubitarim:" and the great professor Burman hath styled Tom Thumb "Heroum omnium tragicorum facile principem:" nay, though it hath, among other languages, been translated into Dutch, and celebrated with great applause at Amsterdam (where burlesque never came) by the title of Mynheer ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
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... singing Hamburg. 3. Belle Prescott only failed once last year. 4. Eveline never learned to control herself. 5. Where is Towser, Gertie? 6. I met Homer in Oregon. 7. Where did you find such a queer fossil, Kenneth? 8. Tom Thumb is a tiny specimen of humanity. 9. Did Erasmus Lincoln lose all ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - No 1, Nov 1877 • Various
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... Show woman, "what shows a Dwarf," Seeing a red Cow come To swallow her Tom Thumb, And forc'd with broom of birch ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
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Words linked to "Tom Thumb" :   imaginary creature, imaginary being, small person


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