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Midget is an old word for a very small person. Today it's considered an offensive way to talk about a person with dwarfism — 'little person' is the polite, respectful term. The word is still used, without any offense, to describe small versions of things, like a 'midget submarine.'
(冒犯用語，勿用於稱呼人)矮子；(物品)迷你型的
組成'Midge' (a tiny biting insect) + '-et' (a small version of something).
同家族的字
- midgethe base word — a tiny flying insect; 'midget' first meant something as small as a midge
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
midgetnoun/ˈmɪd͡ʒɪt/
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derogatoryA very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison.
- the midget pony
- By using a midget, skin-tight car of the kind made in Italy the Johannesburger might save himself much tribulation, but he likes large and glittering things, and would rather toil round his city in vain search of a place to put his supercharged, supergrinning Mammalac than use a baby car.
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offensivederogatoryA short person.
- They [children] realize their oughts no less sharply than their crosses; and this even though they are midgets in a land of giants who have forgotten much of their language and whose right is often founded solely on force majeure.
- Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes.
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derogatorySomething for use by a small person; especially something designed or made for one.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。