■ noun Brit. informal a small fish, especially a stickleback or minnow.
↘a young or unusually small person or thing.
Origin
C19: perh. related to tiddly 2 or tittlebat , a childish form of stickleback .
■ noun Brit. informal a small fish, especially a stickleback or minnow.
↘a young or unusually small person or thing.
Origin
C19: perh. related to tiddly 2 or tittlebat , a childish form of stickleback .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004