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minikin

American  
[min-i-kin] / ˈmɪn ɪ kɪn /

noun

  1. a person or object that is delicate, dainty, or diminutive.

  2. a printing type (about 3½ point).

adjective

  1. delicate, dainty, or mincing.

minikin British  
/ ˈmɪnɪkɪn /

noun

  1. a small, dainty, or affected person or thing

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adjective

  1. dainty, prim, or affected

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Etymology

Origin of minikin

1535–45; < Middle Dutch minneken friend, lover, equivalent to minne love + -ken -kin

Example Sentences

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They are mounted each year with grand ingenuity and minikin budgets.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010

No, she is borne on a whispering bejeweled wind of minikin glittering wings.

From Time Magazine Archive

A withered leprechaun set eyes into the head of a minikin hound.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.

From The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

"No great mystery; only——" "Only—some minikin mystery?" said Mr. Walsingham.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Edgeworth, Maria

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