hop-o'-my-thumb

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very small person or creature. colloquial,dated
    — 1830, Uncredited (John Poole), The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 1: Original Papers, page 81, As to changing them for a pack of your little hop-o'-my-thumbs, no bigger than the one you lent me t'other night — ! suppose I should ask you to let me have the mare you rode to cover o'Thursday — and a clever mare she is, […] .

词形变化

hop-o'-my-thumbs plural

词源

From the idea that such a person could hop over somebody's thumb; in common use in the 16th century.
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