Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1597, published a “history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed the Boast of England… .”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.