Midget Definition
mĭjĭt
midgets
noun
midgets
A person who is much smaller than average, with head, limbs, and trunk proportionate to each other in size.
Webster's New World
An extremely small person who is otherwise normally proportioned.
American Heritage
Anything very small of its kind.
Webster's New World
A class of small objects, as a class of very small sailboats or racing cars.
American Heritage
(originally) A little sandfly.
Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you manyfold till you itch all over your unprotected skin.
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adjective
Very small of its kind; miniature.
Webster's New World
Belonging to a type or class much smaller than what is considered standard.
A midget automobile.
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Noun
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midget
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midgetsOrigin of Midget
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Diminutive of midge (from Old English mygg, mycg (“gnat"), from Proto-Germanic *mugjō; cognate with Dutch mug (“mosquito") & German Mücke (“midge, gnat")), using the suffix -et, originally (1865) for a "little sand fly", only around 1869 also a "very small person".
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