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midget
[ mij-it ]
noun
- Older Use: Disparaging and Offensive. an abnormally small person having normal physical proportions.
- any animal or thing that is very small for its kind.
adjective
- very small or of a class below the usual size.
- being a miniature replica or model.
midget
/ ˈmɪdʒɪt /
noun
- a dwarf whose skeleton and features are of normal proportions
- something small of its kind
- ( as modifier )
a midget car
- an age level of 16 to 17 in amateur sport, esp ice hockey
Sensitive Note
Other Words From
- midget·ism noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of midget1
Example Sentences
The mass-midget mind was concretized with the very idea that “free thought” means “free stuff.”
There, Belfort and his cronies are tossing a “midget” into a target in the center of the office.
He had worked at the Chicago Rose Fair on the midget orchestra.
Where else would you find a midget on stilts peering into the shadowy corners of a storage locker with night vision equipment?
The midget recovered Alfred's knife from the dust and walked over to the trailer that he noted had a wooden coop of slats aboard.
"Gillis Station," he called out to the midget who had remained very quiet.
It was no doubt a singular sight to the residents to see a midget with six-footers, but it was just that way.
Reappearing with the dead body, he bore it in his huge arms to the stoneboat: a midget carrying a giant.
To the midget stuff I thought I would add a few paragraphs about circus people, the different kinds and what they do.
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