Midget \Midg"et\, n. [Dim. of midge.]
1. (Zool.) A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
2. A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the
body parts; compare dwarf.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
midget
adj : very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of
drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the
flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
[syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, petite,
tiny, flyspeck]
n : a person who is abnormally small [syn: dwarf, nanus]
WordNet (r) 2.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "midget":
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, brownie, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed,
dwarfish, elf, elfin, gnome, homunculus, incipient, lilliputian,
manikin, meager, midge, miniature, minikin, nanoid, peewee,
pip-squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy,
scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted,
teeny, undersize, undersized, wart, wee, wizened
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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