Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pygmy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
Pygmy . - noun (Zoöl.) Same as
Falconet , 2 (a).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unusually small individual
- noun any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet
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Examples
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Out of consideration for Fred's physique, among his friends he was known as Pigmy and Pee Wee, the former title sometimes being shortened into Pyg.
The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine Ross Kay 1917
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Another new highlight: A fetching rendition of the Booker T the MGs instrumental "Pigmy," featuring Mr. Whitlock on organ.
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"Pigmy" is a word I use generally with much caution, since a friend of mine, in the excitement of a first baby, once published a poem entitled "My Pigmy Counterpart," which a type-setter made, in the magazine version, "My Pig, My Counterpart."
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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'Pigmy'; but we can't keep that name without confusing it with the
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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Manxman's Lake near Kirkcudbright, when two revenue cutters (the 'Pigmy' and the 'Dwarf') hove in sight at once on different tacks, the one coming round by the Isles of Fleet, the other between the point of Rueberry and the Muckle Ron.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Pigmy' and the 'Dwarf') hove in sight at once on different tacks, the one coming round by the Isles of Fleet, the other between the point of Rueberry and the Muckle Ron.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Pigmy' and the 'Dwarf') hove in sight at once on different tacks, the one coming round by the Isles of Fleet, the other between the point of Rueberry and the Muckle Ron.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions, the Pigmy to the fever-rotten jungles of Africa.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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We also have huge (over 6 ft) Eastern Diamondbacks, Cottonmouth mocassins and the tiny Pigmy rattler.
Puff This! 2008
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It appears as though almost all Bonobos (Pigmy Chimpanzees) are bisexual.
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