munchkin

[ muhnch-kin ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, (often initial capital letter)

a small person, especially one who is dwarfish or elfin in appearance.
Informal. a child:
The munchkins enjoyed holding and feeding the animals in the petting zoo.

munchkin

/ ˈmʌntʃkɪn /

After the Munchkins, a dwarflike race portrayed in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and other fantasy novels

C20: from the Munchkins, a dwarfish race of people in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

But I was able to reach Duccini, who at 94 is the oldest Munchkin from The Wizard of Oz.

She was only 20 when she filmed her role as a member of Munchkin Village.

But it is surely not too late, even now, to do this, for the girl must still be33 living in the Munchkin Country.

Ozma offered to take them all in the Red Wagon to a place as near to the great Munchkin forest as189 a wagon could get.

It had the head of a young man—evidently a Munchkin—with a pleasant face and hair neatly combed.

Do you remember loving a pretty Munchkin girl named Nimmie Amee?

He wore a blue Munchkin hat, with pointed crown and broad brim, and big spectacles covered his eyes.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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