little Timmy

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Tiny Tim, or Lassie trope.

Noun

little Timmy (plural little Timmies)

1. (informal) Placeholder name for a young child in an example scenario.
   • 1978, Paula McDonald, Guilt-free‎^[1], →OCLC:

     Suburbanites were uniformly young in the late fifties. Everybody was married; everybody had children. Like birds of a feather, we were eager to join up with the flock. Magazines and television had been promoting the image for almost ten years: Saturday-night backyard barbecues with friends; neighbors sharing freshly baked coffee cakes; a wide sidewalk for little Timmy to ride his tricycle. The perfect life, and most of us wanted it.

   • 1984, Emily Post, Emily Post's Etiquette‎^[2], →OCLC:

     If you want little Timmy to be considered attractive and intelligent by your friends (and who doesn't?), he must learn to greet people pleasantly.

   • 1991 September 9, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian‎^[3], →OCLC:

     It didn't take me much time to discover that the remnants of what I'm sure was once a thriving and helpful staff - the kind of staff that was never too busy to get a cat out of a tree or walk little Timmy to school but now consists of about 20 people due to the financial genius of Michael Dukakis.

   • 1998 September 1, Maximum PC The Nearly Complete Collection‎^[4]:

     The card's also handy for tuckered parents who don’t have the energy to upload images of little Timmy to a web page for grandma to see.

   • 2005 November 11, The Omen Archives‎^[5]:

     I can’t stand it when middle class suburbanites buy Hummers. They are not going to enter a Twisted Metal competition in which they will duel to the death in their vehicle, nor will they explore the trackless reaches of the Arctic. You are going to drive to the mall and bring little Timmy to soccer practice.

   • 2012, Diana and Holly Parks, I Didn't See Me Do It: A Double Take on the First Twenty Years‎^[6]:

     Parents — when trying to get little Timmy to let go of his friend's truck or come when you call, please don't count to three before expecting him to act. Or five. Or ten. All it does is give your child license to do whatever they want for two more seconds. Or four. Or nine. There is value to immediate obedience.

   • 2014, Elliott James, Daring : Pax Arcana, Book 2‎^[7], →OCLC:

     "Why did we bring all this firepower if we're not going to use it?" Brett protested.
     "To have options. Right now, the fewer of us that are tossing lead around, the better," I insisted. "I don't want little Timmy two lanes over catching a stray bullet while he's asleep in his race car bed."