midget
mid·get
noun
1.
a person who is abnormally small
adjective
1.
very small
- “diminutive in stature”
- “a lilliputian chest of drawers”
- “her petite figure”
- “tiny feet”
- “the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy”
Origin
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”)).
Phrases
- crib midget
- mental midget
- midget car
- midget cell
- midget golf
- midget tossing
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