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Instance of: lemon:LexicalSense
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lemon:definition Statement1
rdf:type lemon:SenseDefinition
lemon:value eng “(American colloquial) A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.”
lemon:value eng “Unknown, but may be a dialectal form of dwarf.May be a term coined by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien] and/or his friends.In The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letters_of_J._R._R._Tolkien] there is mention of T. W. Earp, “the original ‘twerp’”. Obviously, T. W. Earp's initials and surname could have given rise to the term. As far as can be told, the word came into use circa 1910 (according to Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Partridge]), which would be an appropriate time-period, if indeed Tolkien and/or his friends coined the term.Another origin: 'twerp' was the name given to a type of racing pigeon flying between Antwerp & London, c.1870. The author, writing in 1965, states that the term was then about 100 years old. [Source: THE ODD FACTS OF LIFE by Bill Hooper, (New English Library), 1965].* See citations page.”
uby:definitionType “intensionalDefinition”
uby:statementType “etymology”
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uby:index “2”
uby:monolingualExternalRef MonolingualExternalRef1
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uby:externalReference “732615:0:2”
uby:externalSystem “Wiktionary sense key”

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