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   ‘He’s only a little man,’ says an Australian speaker in A Salute to the Great McCarthy, by Barry Oakley, ‘but you want to watch him because he can crucify you if he wants. That right, tiny?’ The man addressed here replies ‘Cut it out,’ not appreciating the term.
   Most of the expressions drawing attention to someone’s relatively small size, such as ‘tich’, ‘nipper’, ‘pip’, ‘shorty’, ‘shrimp’, ‘weed’, and the like are insulting, although ‘tiny’ appears to fit in well with the vocative system. Its ‘-y’ ending gives it the appearance and sound of a friendly diminutive. The rather odd ‘big tiny’ is used by a wife to address her husband in a friendly way in Gideon Planish, by Sinclair Lewis. The woman concerned uses a wide range of vocatives as endearments.

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