A very small creature or person; a mite or tiny being (archaic or dialectal).
From 'atom' + -y suffix, or possibly from Old French meaning a very small thing. Used in Elizabethan English to describe something minuscule.
Shakespeare might have known this word—it captures the wonder medieval people felt about atoms, which seemed impossibly small, almost magical invisible specks!
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