midget
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ɪt noun
1.
(not in technical use) an extremely small person having normal physical proportions.
2.
any animal or thing that is very small for its kind.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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World English Dictionary
midget (ˈmɪdʒɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a dwarf whose skeleton and features are of normal proportions |
| 2. | a. something small of its kind |
| b. (as modifier): a midget car | |
| 3. | (Canadian) an age level of 16 to 17 in amateur sport, esp ice hockey |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
midget
1865, "little sand fly," from midge + dim. suffix -et. Transferred sense of "very small person" is from 1869.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
midget midg·et (mĭj'ĭt)
n.
A person of extremely small stature who is otherwise normally proportioned. Now considered offensive.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
midget
in human anatomy, a person of very small stature whose bodily proportions, intelligence, and sexual development are within the normal range. Diminutive stature occurs sporadically in families the rest of whose members are of ordinary size. The children of midgets are usually of ordinary height and proportions. This term is often considered pejorative; the term proportionate dwarf is now preferred. See dwarfism; Pygmy.
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Example sentences
The midget-faded rattlesnake, a small subspecies of the western rattlesnake, has extremely toxic venom.
The midget may have died somewhere, but it may have not died in this box.
One character is a cab-driving nun, another is a midget wrestler.
The ball dribbled a few feet, and the midget was thrown out.
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