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Shorty

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A nickname for a short person or (ironic, humorous) a tall person.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A nickname for a short person or (ironic, humorous) a tall person.

    "When I was in the army in forty-three, / A guy named Shorty stole my wife from me."

Etymology

Proprialisation of shorty.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).