little mann.

Brit.

/ˌlɪtl ˈman/,

/ˈlɪtl man/, U.S.

/ˈˌlɪd(ə)l ˈmæn/

Inflections: Plural little man.

Forms: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. and man n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: little adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < little adj. + man n.¹

1. The little finger. Now English regional.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > little finger

ear-fingerOE

least fingerOE

little fingerOE

little manc1300

pinkie1808

minimus1881

auricular-

c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 310 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 308 Ech of is [sc. the devil's] fingres hath is name.., þe leste hatte ‘luttle man’.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 753/3 Hic auricularis, the lythylman.

1832 L. M. Child Little Girl's Own Bk. (ed. 3) 65 Repeat the process with the two other fingers; calling the third finger ring-man, and the fourth finger little-man.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 74 Fingers, names of. In Sheffield these are:—Little man (little finger), [etc.].

1972 B. Jones & B. L. Hawes Step it Down 12 John Davis..told us the finger names..thumb, potlicker, longman, lingman, littleman.

2010 A. Trumble Finger p. xix Auricularis..little man.

2. A young male child, a boy. Now chiefly as a familiar or affectionate form of address (also my little man). Cf. little people n. 3, little woman n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]

knightc893

knapec1000

knaveOE

knape childc1175

knave-childa1225

groom?c1225

knight-bairnc1275

pagec1300

mana1382

swainc1386

knave-bairna1400

little mana1425

man-childa1438

boy1440

little boya1475

lad1535

boykin1540

tomboya1556

urchin1556

loonc1560

kinchin-co(ve)1567

big boy1572

dandiprat1582

pricket1582

boy child1584

callant1597

suck-egg1609

nacketc1618

custrel1668

hospital-boy1677

whelp1710

laddie1721

charity-boy1723

pam-child1760

chappie1822

bo1825

boyo1835

wagling1837

shirttail boy1840

boysie1846

umfaan1852

nipper1859

yob1859

fellow-my-lad?1860

laddo1870

chokra1875

shegetz1885

spalpeen1891

spadger1899

bug1900

boychick1921

sonny boy1928

sonny1939

okie1943

lightie1946

outjie1961

oke1970

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 399 Crist toke þis litil man and putte him in myddil of apostlis and seide to hem, ‘Soþli, but ȝif ȝe ben convertid and be maad as litil children’.

1468 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 540 I beseche yow þat ye wolbe good mastras to my lytyll man, and to se þat he go to scole.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Kinchin-cove, a little Man.

1772 S. Johnson Let. 14 Mar. (1992) I. 387 I congratulate You and Lady Rothes on your little Man, and hope you will all be many years happy together.

1796 tr. F.-G. Ducray-Duminil Alexis i. iii. 22 Today he shall have a holiday..but tomorrow he must go to the books, and show himself very docile, very studious; won't you, my little man?

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 332 ‘Very right, my little man,’ said Ochiltree.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xlii. 370 Clive's black figure striding over the snow..the little man..perched on his father's shoulder.

1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. vi. 131 ‘Not any flounce into the pond yet, little man?’ ‘No, Miss Eustacia,’ the child replied.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 103 My little man! My little mannie!

1953 S. Beckett Watt ii. 83 He continued to think of himself as a man, as his mother had taught him, when she said, There's a good little man, or, There's a bonny little man, or, There's a clever little man.

1994 Q. Tarantino & R. Avary Pulp Fiction ii. 85 Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your Daddy's.

†3.

a. Scottish. A junior or very young male servant working at a farm. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun]

servant?c1225

little man1685

Ribbonman1736

redcoat1848

1685 Brechin Test. VII. f. 125^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Litill-, Litleman To Robert Spark hyrman for ane years fee xvj lib.; Item to John Spark litleman viij lib.; Item to Jean Neaper hird vj lib.

a1814 in J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 209 Our ordinary farmers' households consisted of a big man, a little man, a pleghan.

1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan (1841) 153 Amongst the servants in the employment of our Scottish farmers. There is the ‘muckle man’ and the ‘little man’.

b. At Eton College: a footman. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > footman or flunkey

footman1662

flunkey1786

yellow-plush1841

Jeames1846

Thomas1846

John Thomas1860

little man1885

1885 M. L. Macnaghten Sketchy Memories Eton 23 He..sought for his footman (or ‘little man’ as was the generic term for this class of domestic at my tutor's).

a. (The type of) a man of little wealth or status, an undistinguished and ordinary man; the ‘man in the street’. Cf. little people n. 2, little guy n. at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people

Jackc1390

fellowa1400

commonerc1400

populara1525

plebeianc1550

ungentle1562

Tom Tiler1582

roturier1586

vulgarity1646

little man1707

pleb1795

man of the people1799

the man in the street1831

snob1831

man1860

oickman1925

1706 C. Mather Diary Feb. (1911) I. 534 I have seen and read, how some very little Men, have been the first Occasions and Instruments of great Things in the World.]

1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility iv. 156 How much more were it to be wish'd, that the Great Men of the World would study to become thus Little, than that Little Men would affect to become Great.

1773 H. Mackenzie Man of World i. viii. 83 There is no tax so heavy on a little man, as an acquaintance with a great one.

1801 W. Atkinson Let. in Answer to one written by Stranger Bristol Sel. Pamphlets 7 He [sc. the writer]..begs leave..to be excused giving any account of the sources of his information upon these subjects, further than this, that some of it was received either from a little man, or a Great man.

1862 Spectator 26 Apr. 468/2 The sensation of magnanimity might help the great man, but it would be ridiculous in the little man to pretend to that large virtue.

1933 E. Sutton tr. H. Fallada (title) Little man, what now?

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. iii. 52 The hitherto-unconscious creed Of little men who half succeed.

1952 M. Laski Village xiii. 187 The element of the ordinary man, the little man, taking matters into his own hands.

1960 Times 28 Sept. 15/4 Its central episode is the rebellion of a ‘little man’ against the anonymity and dreariness of his life.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Oct. 50/1 Governor Folsom was a resurgent populist..and a self-proclaimed champion of the little man.

b. A small landowner or capitalist; a person working or producing on a small scale; a small craftsman or tradesman; a local man available to do light work.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > small-scale

little man1787

the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > small landowner

yeomana1387

portioner1476

goodman1540

esquire1600

little man1787

statesman1787

1787 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 985/2 There is a species of little-men—innkeepers—who stand between the people and the Exchequer, and engross as much of the produce as they think proper.

1802 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 (new ed.) XI. 129 The danger of little men buying the contracts.

1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 624/2 I grudge the saving of a few idle ducats, and think I am fallen into the society of lenders, and little men.

1825 H. Wilson Mem. IV. 103 That little man in St. James's Street, who sells box-combs.

1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. vi. 214 Would it not be possible..to establish..a Poor Man's Bank..doing for the ‘little man’ what all the banks should do for the ‘big man’?

1937 Ann. Reg. 1936 ii. 63 The potential customers being most numerous among the ‘little men’, i.e., small shopkeepers and owners of one-man businesses.

1952 Economist 30 Aug. 514/1 Diversified investment buying by the general public, especially by the ‘little man’.

1962 Guardian 12 Dec. 4/4 What most of us have to do is to find a ‘little man’ who will oblige with a bit of painting in his spare time.

2008 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 Jan. 16 It used to be that wealthy families in rural idylls would have a ‘little man’ in the village who could be called upon to come round at a moment's notice and remove dead pigeons from the chimney pot.

5. In plural. In folklore: small beings with a male human form; elves, leprechauns, etc. Cf. little green man n. at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d, little people n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > collectively

fairya1375

good neighboura1585

faerie1612

good peoplea1692

small people1696

little people1719

Sidhe1724

gentrya1731

little mena1731

small folk1785

little folk1791

gentlefolk1795

the wee folk1819

good folk1820

Pharisee1823

gentle-people1832

fairyhood1844

folk of peace1875

a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 131 in Compl. Wks. (1731) A Woman..made me once very merry with a Story she told me of her Daughter, a Girl of about ten Years old, who..was on the top of a Mountain surrounded by a great Number of little Men, who would not suffer her to pass any farther.

1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles II. 349 One of my own worthy ancestors was himself rescued by the Little Men in Green.

1850 W. Allingham Poems 87 Up the airy mountain Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a hunting For fear of little men.

1908 W. J. Thomas Welsh Fairy Bk. 46 The story of his sojourn in Fairy-land gradually leaked out, and men used to come and ask him about the land of the little men.

1963 W. Starkie Scholars & Gypsies i. i. 19 Under the roots of that tree the little men had their dinner and churned the butter they extracted from the sap of the tree.

2001 I. Losada Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment xiv. 227 There are no little men living in the woods, but that kind of energy pattern is there.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	little man
释义	little mann. Brit. /ˌlɪtl ˈman/, /ˈlɪtl man/, U.S. /ˈˌlɪd(ə)l ˈmæn/ Inflections: Plural little man. Forms: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. and man n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: little adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < little adj. + man n.¹ 1. The little finger. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > little finger ear-fingerOE least fingerOE little fingerOE little manc1300 pinkie1808 minimus1881 auricular- c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 310 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 308 Ech of is [sc. the devil's] fingres hath is name.., þe leste hatte ‘luttle man’. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 753/3 Hic auricularis, the lythylman. 1832 L. M. Child Little Girl's Own Bk. (ed. 3) 65 Repeat the process with the two other fingers; calling the third finger ring-man, and the fourth finger little-man. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 74 Fingers, names of. In Sheffield these are:—Little man (little finger), [etc.]. 1972 B. Jones & B. L. Hawes Step it Down 12 John Davis..told us the finger names..thumb, potlicker, longman, lingman, littleman. 2010 A. Trumble Finger p. xix Auricularis..little man. 2. A young male child, a boy. Now chiefly as a familiar or affectionate form of address (also my little man). Cf. little people n. 3, little woman n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 399 Crist toke þis litil man and putte him in myddil of apostlis and seide to hem, ‘Soþli, but ȝif ȝe ben convertid and be maad as litil children’. 1468 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 540 I beseche yow þat ye wolbe good mastras to my lytyll man, and to se þat he go to scole. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Kinchin-cove, a little Man. 1772 S. Johnson Let. 14 Mar. (1992) I. 387 I congratulate You and Lady Rothes on your little Man, and hope you will all be many years happy together. 1796 tr. F.-G. Ducray-Duminil Alexis i. iii. 22 Today he shall have a holiday..but tomorrow he must go to the books, and show himself very docile, very studious; won't you, my little man? 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 332 ‘Very right, my little man,’ said Ochiltree. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xlii. 370 Clive's black figure striding over the snow..the little man..perched on his father's shoulder. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. vi. 131 ‘Not any flounce into the pond yet, little man?’ ‘No, Miss Eustacia,’ the child replied. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 103 My little man! My little mannie! 1953 S. Beckett Watt ii. 83 He continued to think of himself as a man, as his mother had taught him, when she said, There's a good little man, or, There's a bonny little man, or, There's a clever little man. 1994 Q. Tarantino & R. Avary Pulp Fiction ii. 85 Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your Daddy's. †3. a. Scottish. A junior or very young male servant working at a farm. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] servant?c1225 little man1685 Ribbonman1736 redcoat1848 1685 Brechin Test. VII. f. 125^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Litill-, Litleman To Robert Spark hyrman for ane years fee xvj lib.; Item to John Spark litleman viij lib.; Item to Jean Neaper hird vj lib. a1814 in J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 209 Our ordinary farmers' households consisted of a big man, a little man, a pleghan. 1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan (1841) 153 Amongst the servants in the employment of our Scottish farmers. There is the ‘muckle man’ and the ‘little man’. b. At Eton College: a footman. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > footman or flunkey footman1662 flunkey1786 yellow-plush1841 Jeames1846 Thomas1846 John Thomas1860 little man1885 1885 M. L. Macnaghten Sketchy Memories Eton 23 He..sought for his footman (or ‘little man’ as was the generic term for this class of domestic at my tutor's). 4. a. (The type of) a man of little wealth or status, an undistinguished and ordinary man; the ‘man in the street’. Cf. little people n. 2, little guy n. at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people Jackc1390 fellowa1400 commonerc1400 populara1525 plebeianc1550 ungentle1562 Tom Tiler1582 roturier1586 vulgarity1646 little man1707 pleb1795 man of the people1799 the man in the street1831 snob1831 man1860 oickman1925 1706 C. Mather Diary Feb. (1911) I. 534 I have seen and read, how some very little Men, have been the first Occasions and Instruments of great Things in the World.] 1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility iv. 156 How much more were it to be wish'd, that the Great Men of the World would study to become thus Little, than that Little Men would affect to become Great. 1773 H. Mackenzie Man of World i. viii. 83 There is no tax so heavy on a little man, as an acquaintance with a great one. 1801 W. Atkinson Let. in Answer to one written by Stranger Bristol Sel. Pamphlets 7 He [sc. the writer]..begs leave..to be excused giving any account of the sources of his information upon these subjects, further than this, that some of it was received either from a little man, or a Great man. 1862 Spectator 26 Apr. 468/2 The sensation of magnanimity might help the great man, but it would be ridiculous in the little man to pretend to that large virtue. 1933 E. Sutton tr. H. Fallada (title) Little man, what now? 1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. iii. 52 The hitherto-unconscious creed Of little men who half succeed. 1952 M. Laski Village xiii. 187 The element of the ordinary man, the little man, taking matters into his own hands. 1960 Times 28 Sept. 15/4 Its central episode is the rebellion of a ‘little man’ against the anonymity and dreariness of his life. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Oct. 50/1 Governor Folsom was a resurgent populist..and a self-proclaimed champion of the little man. b. A small landowner or capitalist; a person working or producing on a small scale; a small craftsman or tradesman; a local man available to do light work. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > small-scale little man1787 the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > small landowner yeomana1387 portioner1476 goodman1540 esquire1600 little man1787 statesman1787 1787 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 985/2 There is a species of little-men—innkeepers—who stand between the people and the Exchequer, and engross as much of the produce as they think proper. 1802 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 (new ed.) XI. 129 The danger of little men buying the contracts. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 624/2 I grudge the saving of a few idle ducats, and think I am fallen into the society of lenders, and little men. 1825 H. Wilson Mem. IV. 103 That little man in St. James's Street, who sells box-combs. 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. vi. 214 Would it not be possible..to establish..a Poor Man's Bank..doing for the ‘little man’ what all the banks should do for the ‘big man’? 1937 Ann. Reg. 1936 ii. 63 The potential customers being most numerous among the ‘little men’, i.e., small shopkeepers and owners of one-man businesses. 1952 Economist 30 Aug. 514/1 Diversified investment buying by the general public, especially by the ‘little man’. 1962 Guardian 12 Dec. 4/4 What most of us have to do is to find a ‘little man’ who will oblige with a bit of painting in his spare time. 2008 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 Jan. 16 It used to be that wealthy families in rural idylls would have a ‘little man’ in the village who could be called upon to come round at a moment's notice and remove dead pigeons from the chimney pot. 5. In plural. In folklore: small beings with a male human form; elves, leprechauns, etc. Cf. little green man n. at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d, little people n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > collectively fairya1375 good neighboura1585 faerie1612 good peoplea1692 small people1696 little people1719 Sidhe1724 gentrya1731 little mena1731 small folk1785 little folk1791 gentlefolk1795 the wee folk1819 good folk1820 Pharisee1823 gentle-people1832 fairyhood1844 folk of peace1875 a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 131 in Compl. Wks. (1731) A Woman..made me once very merry with a Story she told me of her Daughter, a Girl of about ten Years old, who..was on the top of a Mountain surrounded by a great Number of little Men, who would not suffer her to pass any farther. 1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles II. 349 One of my own worthy ancestors was himself rescued by the Little Men in Green. 1850 W. Allingham Poems 87 Up the airy mountain Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a hunting For fear of little men. 1908 W. J. Thomas Welsh Fairy Bk. 46 The story of his sojourn in Fairy-land gradually leaked out, and men used to come and ask him about the land of the little men. 1963 W. Starkie Scholars & Gypsies i. i. 19 Under the roots of that tree the little men had their dinner and churned the butter they extracted from the sap of the tree. 2001 I. Losada Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment xiv. 227 There are no little men living in the woods, but that kind of energy pattern is there. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300
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