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midget
[ mij-it ]
noun
- Older Use: Disparaging and Offensive. an abnormally small person having normal physical proportions.
- any animal or thing that is very small for its kind.
adjective
- very small or of a class below the usual size.
- being a miniature replica or model.
midget
/ ˈmɪdʒɪt /
noun
- a dwarf whose skeleton and features are of normal proportions
- something small of its kind
- ( as modifier )
a midget car
- an age level of 16 to 17 in amateur sport, esp ice hockey
Sensitive Note
Other Words From
- midget·ism noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of midget1
Example Sentences
So he would race on these ice flat tracks and then he raced what’s called midgets, which is really just a car with these big tires and big dirt tracks and oval dirt tracks.
Sefolosha, who is 6 feet, 7 inches tall, called the cop a “midget.”
The mass-midget mind was concretized with the very idea that “free thought” means “free stuff.”
There, Belfort and his cronies are tossing a “midget” into a target in the center of the office.
He had worked at the Chicago Rose Fair on the midget orchestra.
Where else would you find a midget on stilts peering into the shadowy corners of a storage locker with night vision equipment?
The midget recovered Alfred's knife from the dust and walked over to the trailer that he noted had a wooden coop of slats aboard.
"Gillis Station," he called out to the midget who had remained very quiet.
It was no doubt a singular sight to the residents to see a midget with six-footers, but it was just that way.
Reappearing with the dead body, he bore it in his huge arms to the stoneboat: a midget carrying a giant.
To the midget stuff I thought I would add a few paragraphs about circus people, the different kinds and what they do.
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