Tom Thumb

English

Tom Thumb stealing the ogre's seven-league boots

Proper noun

Tom Thumb

1. A fairy-tale character who is the size of a person's thumb; the protagonist and hero of the fairy tale The History of Tom Thumb.

Derived terms

• Tom Thumb golf

Related terms

• hop-o'-my-thumb
• Thumbelina

Descendants

• → French: Tom Pouce
  • → Dutch: tompoes
    • → English: tompouce
  • → Limburgish: tompoeske

Translations

the thumb-sized hero of a fairy tale

• Afrikaans: Klein Duimpie
• Arabic: عُقْلَة الإِصْبَعِ m (ʕuqla(t) al-ʔiṣbaʕi)
• Aragonese: Pulgaret m
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian:

  Traditional: Хло́пчык як па́льчык m (Xlópčyk jak pálʹčyk), Мало́е Пальчанё́ n (Malóje Palʹčanjó)

• Breton: Meudig (br) m
• Bulgarian: Малечко Палечко n (Malečko Palečko)
• Catalan: Polzet m
• Czech: Paleček m
• Dutch: Klein Duimpje (nl) n
• Erzya: Пелькине (Peľkińe)
• Esperanto: Dikfingrulo
• Finnish: Peukaloinen
• French: Tom Pouce (fr) m, Petit Poucet (fr) m
• Galician: Polgariño (gl) m
• German: Däumling (de) m
• Greek: Κοντορεβιθούλης m (Kontorevithoúlis)
• Hungarian: Hüvelyk Matyi (hu), Babszem Jankó
• Italian: Pollicino m
• Japanese: 親指トム (おやゆびトム, oyayubi Tomu)
• Kazakh: Шынашақ (Şynaşaq)
• Persian: تام انگشتی (tâm angošti), تام بندانگشتی (tâm bandângošti)
• Polish: Tomcio Paluch m, Paluszek m
• Portuguese: (Portugal) Polegarzinho m, (Brazil) Pequeno Polegar m
• Romanian: Tom Degețel m
• Russian: Ма́льчик-с-па́льчик (ru) m (Málʹčik-s-pálʹčik)
• Spanish: Pulgarcito m
• Swedish: Tummeliten c
• Turkish: erkenek, erkecel, erkecey, ernek (tr), irkenek, irkeyel
• Welsh: Bawd Bach m
• West Frisian: Tomke m

Noun

Tom Thumb (plural Tom Thumbs)

1. (Australia) A type of diminutive simple firecracker that explodes to give a loud noise.

Further reading

• Tom Thumb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• The History of Tom Thumb on Wikisource.Wikisource