- thinima
- A child’s joking name for a thin person, punning on ‘Fatima’. See also spindleshanks.
A dictionary of epithets and terms of address . Leslie Dunkling . 2015.
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Fatima — Actually a popular Arabic name, that of the Prophet Mohammad’s daughter, but used by English children as a transferred name for a fat girl. They also use the invented name ‘Thinima’ for an especially thin girl. See also Fatty … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
spindleshanks — Applied to a person with long, thin legs since the sixteenth century, and still in playground use, according to the Opies in The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. They list the synonymous: Spindle Dick, Spindle legs, and Spindle sticks.… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
