Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Insignificant; diminutive.
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Examples
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Though they had seven-leagued boots, you remember all sorts of little whipping-snapping Tom Thumbs used to elude and outrun them.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Though they had seven-leagued boots, you remember all sorts of little whipping-snapping Tom Thumbs used to elude and outrun them.
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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