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noun
1.
Anthropology.
a.
a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa.
b.
a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
2.
(lowercase) a small or dwarfish person.
3.
(lowercase) anything very small of its kind.
4.
(lowercase) a person who is of small importance, or who has some quality, attribute, etc., in very small measure.
5.
Classical Mythology. (in the Iliad) one of a race of dwarfs who fought battles with cranes, who preyed on them and destroyed their fields.
adjective
6.
(often lowercase) of or pertaining to the Pygmies.
7.
(lowercase) of very small size, capacity, power, etc.
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Pygmyism
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
Also, Pigmy.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English pigmēis, plural of pigmē < Latin Pygmaeus < Greek pygmaîos dwarfish (adj.), Pygmy (noun), equivalent to pygm(ḗ) distance from elbow to knuckles + -aios adj. suffix
1350–1400; Middle English pigmēis, plural of pigmē < Latin Pygmaeus < Greek pygmaîos dwarfish (adj.), Pygmy (noun), equivalent to pygm(ḗ) distance from elbow to knuckles + -aios adj. suffix
Related forms
pyg·moid, adjective
pyg·my·ish, adjective
pyg·my·ism, noun
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