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What (who) is Tom Thumb - definition
Tom Thumb
![Frontispiece ''[[The Tragedy of Tragedies]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FrontispieceTragedyOfTragedies.png?width=200 "Frontispiece ''[[The Tragedy of Tragedies]]''")
![Grave of Tom Thumb in [[Tattershall]], [[Lincolnshire]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The grave of Tom Thumb in Tattershall.JPG?width=200 "Grave of Tom Thumb in [[Tattershall]], [[Lincolnshire]].")
![The Queen of the Fairies]] attends the birth of Tom Thumb](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom Thumb.JPG?width=200 "The Queen of the Fairies]] attends the birth of Tom Thumb")
![Tom Thumb rides a [[butterfly]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom Thumb hitches a ride on a butterfly - Project Gutenberg eText 15661.jpg?width=200 "Tom Thumb rides a [[butterfly]].")
CHARACTER IN LITERATURE
Tom thumb; Huncamunca; Hop-o'-my-Thumb; Thumb, Tom
Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. The History of Tom Thumb was published in 1621 and was the first fairy tale printed in English.
tom thumb
CHARACTER IN LITERATURE
Tom thumb; Huncamunca; Hop-o'-my-Thumb; Thumb, Tom
¦ noun a dwarf variety of a cultivated flower or vegetable.
Origin
C19: from the name of the hero of a fairy story, who was only as tall as his father's thumb.
Tom Thumb (play)
PLAY BY HENRY FIELDING
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Tom Thumb is a play written by Henry Fielding as an addition to The Author's Farce. It was added on 24 April 1730 at Haymarket.
Examples of use of Tom Thumb
1. Maybe Tom Cruise should change his name to Tom Thumb! – Pip Waller, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Tom Thumb Cruise will ever be tall, why does he have such a complex about being short?
2. "Hopefully they will help him do all the normal things, such as tying his shoelaces and getting dressed, that he would otherwise have struggled with." ‘My little Tom Thumb‘ Miss Prendergast, 26, added: "It is amazing what the doctors have done – I call him my little Tom Thumb." During the four–hour operations, doctors moved Nicholas‘s index fingers to the spot where his thumbs should have been and twisted the fingers round.
3. The famed writer of 156 stories, including "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid" and "Tom Thumb," would be the main theme of the $12.5 million park in Shanghai, China‘s largest city, the Shanghai Daily said.
4. –– Charles Gillespie Cullum DALLAS (AP) _ Charles Gillespie "Charlie" Cullum, who co–founded Tom Thumb grocery stores with his brother and turned the chain into a billion–dollar enterprise, died Tuesday.