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noun (plural: midgets)
  1. (originally) a little sand-fly
Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you manyfold till you itch all over your unprotected skin
  1. (loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge
  2. A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
  3. (derogatory) A short person.
  4. (attributively) That is a small version of something; miniature
the pony
Translations: 
  • Dutch: dwerg-, mini-
  • German: Zwerg-, mini-/Mini-
    (trans-mid)
  • Italian: mini-
  • French: nain , naine
Etymology: diminutive of midge (from O.E. mygg, mycg "gnat," from Proto-Germanic
  • mugjon, (cognate with Dutch mug 'mosquito' & German Mícke "midge, gnat")), using the suffix -et, originally (1865) for a "little sand fly" , only around 1869 also a "very small person"



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