DIMINUTIVE
ADJECTIVES
► ACAMY diminutive, undersized, infirm → 1845 Sc.
► EENABIE small, diminutive for one’s age → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► EXIGUOUS scant in measure or number; extremely small, little, diminutive, minute, slender → 1651
► MANIKIN ► MANNIKIN dwarf, pygmy, diminutive, undersized, puny → 1840
► PUMIL dwarf, dwarfish, diminutive → 1776 obs.
► PYGMEAN of the nature or size of a pygmy; diminutive, dwarfish → 1645
► PYGMY of things: very small, diminutive, tiny → 1616
► SCRANKIT shrunken, diminutive → 1854 Eng. dial.
► TINE very small, tiny, diminutive → a1400-50 obs.
NOUNS
► ACAMY a diminutive thing → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► AWTUS a dwarf; any diminutive thing → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► BABY a tiny or diminutive animal or thing; a small version of something generally larger → 1859
NOUNS – PERSON
► ARSE-WORM a little diminutive man; a small or insignificant fellow; an oaf → 1690 sl.
► AWTUS a dwarf; any diminutive thing → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► BEYCHEL a diminutive person with the idea of quick movement → 1914 Sc.
► BODACH a diminutive person → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CATRIDGE a diminutive person fond of women → 1825 Sc.
► CRUMPLING a diminutive crooked or deformed person → 1825 obs.
► DANCE-IN-MY-LIFE a very diminutive or small person → 1825 Sc.
► DIMINITY a diminutive person or animal → 1859 Eng. dial.
► EEMOCK ► IMMICK a person of diminutive stature; a fairy → 1914 Sc.
► EEREPI a jocular name for a very small person or child; a diminutive person → 1905 Sc.
► EFA a small, diminutive person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRIG a diminutive person; a dwarf → 1400 obs.
► HALF-PORTION a small. diminutive, or insignificant person; an undersized person; a child → 1914
► HOMUNCULE a little or diminutive man; a dwarf → 1656
► HOP-O’-MY-THUMB a little diminutive person; a dwarf, a pygmy → 1530
► IREPI a jocular name for a very small person or child; a diminutive person → 1905 Sc.
► JACKANAPES anybody at once ugly (or diminutive), showy, and impudent → 1896 sl. (Bk.)
► JACK SPRAT a dwarfish, undersized person; a little fellow; a diminutive boy or man; a nickname for a short person; a dwarf → c1570
► KAT a diminutive person or thing → 1929 Sc.
► LODOLLY a small or diminutive girl → 1866 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MANKIN a diminutive or puny man → 1820
► MESSET a term of contempt for a diminutive person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIDGE a person of diminutive stature; anything very small → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINNIE a diminutive person → 1892 Eng. dial.
► MOPPET a diminutive child or person → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOPSEY ► MOPSY a diminutive person → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NATOMY a pigmy, a diminutive person a small thin ‘slip of a fellow → 1863 Eng. dial.
► OOMACH an odd-looking diminutive person → 1946 Sc.
► OOMIT an odd-looking diminutive person → 1923 Sc.
► OTTOMY a pigmy, a diminutive person, a small thin ‘slip of a fellow’ → 1848 Ireland
► OTTY-MOTTY a pigmy, a diminutive person, a small thin ‘slip of a fellow’ → 1863 Eng. dial.
► PIZZIE a small, diminutive person → 1873 Sc.
► PUMILIO a dwarf; a diminutive person or plant → 1576 obs.
► SCRADEEN a diminutive, worthless fellow → 1867 Ireland
► SHRIMP a diminutive person, esp. a child → colloq.
► SPRITE a diminutive, lively, or mischievous person; one likened to a sprite → 1684
► TARLOCH a diminutive person or child → 1910 Sc.
► TOM THUMB a dwarf or pygmy of popular tradition or fable; hence, a dwarf or diminutive male person; also contemptuously, a petty or insignificant person → 1579
► URF a crabbed or peevish person of a diminutive size → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► URK a small child or diminutive person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WIPPET a puny, diminutive person, as of a child → 1855 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WIRR a crabbed, cantankerous, peevish, diminutive person → 1825 Sc.
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