hop-o'-my-thumb

短语

n. 矮子, 侏儒

词形变化

hop-o'-my-thumbs 复数 hop-o'-my-thumbs

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A very small person or creature.

    非正式 过时

    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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