Citations:Tiny Tim

Proper noun: the Charles Dickens character

 * 1848, "Tenderness of Parent Martens", from Jesse's Rural Studies, quoted in The Day-Book (IV, no. 46) August 1848 p. 223
 * One of the nestlings was the Tiny Tim of the family. He was half-starved, and well-nigh crushed by his more vigorous relatives. When they flew away, half-fledged, he was still a shivering helpless little creature.
 * 1889, "Turkey for Everybody: How Thanksgiving-Day was Observed in this City" Chicago Daily Tribune (29 Nov 1889) p. 2
 * Nineteen suffering little Tiny Tims sniffed at the smell of the turkey, chuckled when they tasted the sweet potatoes, and daubed themselves with cranberry sauce, but when the plum-pudding, wrapped in the bluish green halo of brandy flames, was brought in, they just tipped back on their little cots and fairly howled with delight.
 * 1930 "Police Department Makes Kids Happy", The Chicago Defender (16 Aug 1930) p. 11
 * The police department of New York City has endeared itself to the hearts of the "Tiny Tims."
 * 1933, "400 Tiny Tims Make Merry; 29's Club Plays Host Role", The New York Amsterdam News, 09 Aug 1933 p. 11
 * 1975 Marilyn Sachs, "El Bronx Remembered", The New York Times (16 Nov 1975) p. 305
 * "Qué fenomenal!" says Little Ray, the Tiny Tim of Nicholosa Mohr's new book.

Proper noun: the American singer

 * 1970,, "Lucy and Rudy Vallee" episode of , season 3, quoted in p.295
 * [I was] the Tiny Tim of the Roaring '20s.
 * 1993, "Shrink predicts Madonna suicide try!",  (April 6, 1993) p. 13
 * Madonna is the Tiny Tim of the 90s, says top doc Fischoff.
 * 1993, Chris Smith, "Chao, Baby", , vol. 26, no. 41 (Oct 18, 1993) p. 73
 * I'm not embarrassed by it, but I don't choose to exploit that moment and become the Tiny Tim of the media world.