midget
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈmɪd͡ʒɪt//
A very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison.
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- 1
A very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison.
the midget pony
By using a midget, skin-tight car of the kind made in Italy the Johannesburger might save himself much tribulation, but he likes large and glittering things, and would rather toil round his city in vain search of a place to put his supercharged, supergrinning Mammalac than use a baby car.
- 2
A short person.
They [children] realize their oughts no less sharply than their crosses; and this even though they are midgets in a land of giants who have forgotten much of their language and whose right is often founded solely on force majeure.
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes.
- 3
Something for use by a small person; especially something designed or made for one.
- 4
Variante de midgearchaïqueAlternative form of midge (“small fly”)
Étymologie
From midge (chiefly in the figurative sense of “small thing”, literally “small fly”) + -et (diminutive suffix), (from Old English myċġ (“mosquito”), from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mew-; cognate with Dutch mug (“mosquito”) and German Mücke (“midge, gnat”)).
Formes
- pluriel
- midgets
midget · A very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison.
midnight · The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant…midst · A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal…midtown · The part of a city between uptown and downtown.