Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put (a word) into the form of a diminutive; form as a diminutive of another word: as, Certhiola is Certhia diminutized.
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Examples
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I could never decide whether my father’s interpolations—from frummers to frummies, and then from frummies to frumkies—were designed to diminutize them or diminutize their offense.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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