Hop-o-my-thumb (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Hop-o-my-thumb

A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shoulder, might pick a pea out of her a-se.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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