titch

titch
titch (also tich) NOUN Brit. informal a small person.
ORIGIN from Little Tich, stage name of Harry Relph (1868 1928), an English music-hall comedian of small stature, given the nickname because he resembled Arthur Orton, the unsuccessful claimant to the valuable Tichborne estate.

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