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Midshipmite

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A little or petty midshipman. archaic, slang

    "CHAPTER VII. In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel, what might be called midshipmite compunction."

Etymology

Blend of midshipman + mite?

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