| 释义 |
Definition of thumbling in English: thumblingnoun ˈθʌmlɪŋ A very small person or fictional being. Example sentencesExamples - When Tom is identified as a thumbling, he has been speaking to a dragonfly larva also about to undergo a metamorphosis.
- Later the thumbling flies to Africa aboard a stork.
- A thief steals the oxen and, hearing the thumbling's angry voice, takes him to be a ghost.
- It was well for the little thumbling that he did not see the smile on his sister's and brother's faces.
- A thumbling stepped out of the bushes into the tiny clearing around the tree in which they hid.
Synonyms very small person, person of restricted growth
Origin Mid 19th century: from thumb + -ling. |