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noun (plural: midgets)
- (originally) a little sand-fly
- Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you manyfold till you itch all over your unprotected skin
- (loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge
- A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
- (derogatory) A short person.
- (attributively) That is a small version of something; miniature
- the pony
Translations: - Dutch: dwerg-, mini-
- German: Zwerg-, mini-/Mini-
(trans-mid)
- Italian: mini-
- French: nain , naine
Etymology: diminutive of midge (from O.E. mygg, mycg "gnat," from Proto-Germanic - mugjon, (cognate with Dutch mug 'mosquito' & German Mícke "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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