Midget

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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