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Tom Thumb

noun

  1. a diminutive hero of folk tales.
  2. an extremely small person; dwarf.
  3. General, nickname of Charles Sherwood Stratton.


Tom Thumb

noun

  1. Tom Thumb, General18381883MUSMISC: midget General, stage name of Charles Stratton. 1838–83, US midget, exhibited in P. T. Barnum's circus
  2. a dwarf; midget
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Tom Thumb

  1. A thumb-sized hero of children's stories from the sixteenth century on.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tom Thumb1

after Tom Thumb, the tiny hero of several English folk tales
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Example Sentences

I used to feel so hopeless that I was like Tom Thumb who has to hide under a chair so as not to be trodden on.

So the woodman at last agreed to sell Tom Thumb to the strangers for a large piece of gold.

Within a month after their arrival they purchased a small boat about eight feet in length, which they christened the Tom Thumb.

Some of the mock similes in "Tom Thumb" are among the most familiar things in literature.

Not even the transformed "Tom Thumb" could be called an effective reductio ad absurdum of the Italian opera of those days.

The burlesque contained within the pages of "Tom Thumb" covers a considerable field.

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