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Midget
//ˈmɪd͡ʒɪt// noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 very small wordnet
Noun
- 1 A very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison. derogatory, sometimes
"the midget pony"
- 2 a person who is markedly small wordnet
- 3 Alternative form of midge (“small fly”) Canada, US, alt-of, alternative, archaic
- 4 A short person. derogatory, offensive
"They [children] realize their oughts no less sharply than their crosses; and this even though they are midgets in a land of giants who have forgotten much of their language and whose right is often founded solely on force majeure."
- 5 Something for use by a small person; especially something designed or made for one. attributive, derogatory
Etymology
From midge (chiefly in the figurative sense of “small thing”, literally “small fly”) + -et (diminutive suffix), (from Old English myċġ (“mosquito”), from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mew-; cognate with Dutch mug (“mosquito”) and German Mücke (“midge, gnat”)).
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