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English
Etymology
Diminutive of midge (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 ” ) ), using the suffix -et , originally (1865) for a "little sand fly", only around 1869 also a "very small person".
Pronunciation
Noun
Portrait of Sebastián de Morra (c. 1645) by Diego Velázquez . The subject of the painting, a midget or dwarf , was a jester at the court of Philip IV of Spain .
midget (plural midgets )
( originally ) A little sandfly .
Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you till you itch all over your unprotected skin.
( loosely ) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito ; a midge .
( sometimes offensive ) A normally-proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
( sometimes offensive ) Any short person.
( attributively , now sometimes offensive ) A small version of something; miniature .
the midget pony
Usage notes
Used for an insect, this is a variation on midge that is commonly used.
Use of this word may be considered offensive, even when describing something other than a person.[ 1]
Synonyms
Antonyms
( antonym(s) of “ derogatory: any small person ” ) : giant
( antonym(s) of “ miniature ” ) : giant
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
person of small stature of adult height less than 4'10"
Arabic: قَزَم m ( qazam )
Armenian: թզուկ (hy) ( tʻzuk )
Azerbaijani: cırtdan
Basque: nano , epotx
Bulgarian: джудже (bg) n ( džudže )
Burmese: ပုတို (my) ( pu.tui )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 侏儒 (zh) ( zhūrú )
Czech: trpaslík (cs) m
Danish: dværg
Dutch: dwerg (nl)
Finnish: kääpiö (fi)
French: nain (fr) m , naine (fr) f
Georgian: ჯუჯა (ka) ( ǯuǯa )
German: Zwerg (de) m , Zwergin (de) f , Liliputaner (de) m , Liliputanerin (de) f
Italian: nano (it) m , nana (it) f
Japanese: 小人 (ja) ( こびと, kobito ) , ちび (ja) ( chibi ) , ミゼット ( mizetto )
Lao: ຄົນແຈ້ (lo) ( khon chǣ )
Latin: salapūtium n
Macedonian: џуџе (mk) n ( džudže ) , кепец m ( kepec )
Maori: whito , whē , whena
Mongolian: одой хүн ( odoj xün )
Polish: karzeł (pl) m , karlica (pl) f , liliput (pl) m , liliputka f
Portuguese: anão (pt) m , anã f
Russian: лилипу́т (ru) m ( lilipút ) , лилипу́тка (ru) f ( lilipútka )
Slovak: trpaslík (sk) m
Spanish: enano (es) m
Swedish: dvärg (sv) c
Tagalog: unano (tl)
Thai: คนเล็ก ( kon lék ) , คนแคระ ( kon kráe )
Tibetan: མིའུ་ཐུང ( mi'u thung ) , མི་ཆུང ( mi chung )
Vietnamese: rất nhỏ , chú lùn
loosely: a midge
— see midge
derogatory: any short person
Albanian: shkurtabiq (sq) m , shkurtalaq m , shkurtaq m
Bulgarian: дребосък (bg) m ( drebosǎk )
Czech: zakrslík m
Danish: gnom , mandsling
Dutch: dwerg (nl) m
Finnish: kääpiö (fi) , skäfä
French: nain (fr) m , naine (fr) f , nabot (fr) m
Galician: rebolo (gl) m
German: Zwerg (de) m , Zwergin (de) f , Winzling (de) m , Gnom (de) m
Irish: cnádaí
Italian: nano (it) m , nana (it) f
Latin: nanus m , nana f
Macedonian: џуџе (mk) n ( džudže ) , кепец m ( kepec )
Polish: kurdupel (pl) m
Portuguese: anão (pt) m
Russian: ка́рлик (ru) m ( kárlik ) , ка́рлица (ru) f ( kárlica )
Spanish: chichón de piso m , retaco (es) m
Swedish: dvärg (sv) c
Tagalog: pandak
Yiddish: קאַרליק m ( karlik )
attributively: that is the small version of something
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