midget-esque

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English

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Etymology

From midget +‎ -esque.

Adjective

midget-esque (comparative more midget-esque, superlative most midget-esque)

  1. Resembling a midget.
    • 1998 January 5, Vermilion, “elf immunities”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):
      Vermilion, who plays elves just because he has an aversion to midget-esque characters
    • 2002 April 21, Mike and Dorcie, “OT: Mrs. Stone for Millennium!”, in alt.tv.frasier (Usenet):
      In Lost Highway, Robert Blake is midget-esque.
    • 2011, Ricco Saccani, Made in Italy - The Story of an American Conductor, page 96:
      "The intendent's longtime secretary, a stocky, short, almost midget-esque, chain-smoking woman in her 50s with hair bleached yellow who could occasionally be found at her desk held the strings to the whole operation."
    • 2014, Paul Bond, $57M Impairment Charge on 'Mr. Peabody & Sherman, link
      I wonder if he wants to translate the business into Asia predominantly so he won't be so midget-esque.