"hop-o'-my-thumb" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the idea that such a person could hop over somebody's thumb; in common use in the 16th century.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1830, Uncredited (John Poole), The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 1: Original Papers, page 81,\nAs 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, […] ."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, “Opening of the Theatre-Royal, Little Pedlington”, in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 422",
          "text": "\"In the first place,” answered Hobbleday, somewhat tartly, “I suppose our Daubson, who painted the famous grenadier in Yawkins's skittle-ground, knew very well what he was about: he wasn't going to paint hop-o'-my-thumbs that might be mistaken for drummer-boys.[…]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Joan Aiken, Cold Shoulder Road, published 2010, unnumbered page",
          "text": "\"[…]And who are these little hop-o'-my-thumbs?” as Arun and Is jumped down from the cart.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very small person or creature."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, dated) A very small person or creature."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lilliputian"
        },
        {
          "word": "Thumbelina"
        },
        {
          "word": "Tom Thumb"
        }
      ],
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        "colloquial",
        "dated"
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        "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"
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{
  "etymology_text": "From the idea that such a person could hop over somebody's thumb; in common use in the 16th century.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hop-o'-my-thumbs",
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        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lilliputian"
    },
    {
      "word": "Thumbelina"
    },
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        {
          "text": "1830, Uncredited (John Poole), The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 1: Original Papers, page 81,\nAs 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, […] ."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, “Opening of the Theatre-Royal, Little Pedlington”, in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 422",
          "text": "\"In the first place,” answered Hobbleday, somewhat tartly, “I suppose our Daubson, who painted the famous grenadier in Yawkins's skittle-ground, knew very well what he was about: he wasn't going to paint hop-o'-my-thumbs that might be mistaken for drummer-boys.[…]\"",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "\"[…]And who are these little hop-o'-my-thumbs?” as Arun and Is jumped down from the cart.",
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        }
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        "A very small person or creature."
      ],
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        "(colloquial, dated) A very small person or creature."
      ],
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