From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Midget \Midg"et\, noun [Dim. of midge.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]
2. A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the body parts; compare {dwarf}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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}]
noun
1: 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
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