Brewer's: Bantam

A little bantam cock. A little plucky fellow that will not be bullied by a person bigger than himself. The bantam cock will encounter a dunghill cock five times his own weight, and is therefore said to “have a great soul in a little body.” The bantam originally came from Bantam, in Java.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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