叫人：那個矮的
最貼近核心畫面：手指指向個子最小的人，然後把這件事當成他的名字。
noun · B2
A name people call someone who is not very tall. It is usually meant as an insult, though close friends and family sometimes use it as a friendly nickname.
矮子（綽號）
核心畫面
Think of shorty as a label somebody sticks on the small one in the group. English uses -y to turn a plain fact into a name you can say out loud, so short stops describing and starts pointing: that one, the little one. Because it is a name and not a description, the feeling travels with whoever is speaking. The same word can be an insult across a , a family tease, a warm word for your own kid, or a quick tag on the short model of a jacket.
「shorty」可以想成：在一群人或一排東西裡，有人伸手指著最小的那個，然後直接拿這件事當名字叫。英文的 -y 常常…更多收起
「shorty」可以想成：在一群人或一排東西裡，有人伸手指著最小的那個，然後直接拿這件事當名字叫。英文的 -y 常常把一個平常的事實變成可以叫出口的稱呼，所以 short 從「形容」變成「指名」——就那個小的。因為它是稱呼而不是描述，語氣就跟著說話的人跑：同一個字可以是操場上的難聽話，可以是家人之間的玩笑，可以是講自己孩子時的疼惜，也可以是隨口指某件短版衣服。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the form as short plus -y, going back through Middle English schort to Old English sceort. The suffix -y is the part that turns the adjective into a name, which is why shorty is almost always something you call a person or a product rather than a way to describe one.
Wiktionary 記錄的組成是 short 加 -y，往回可以追到中古英語 schort、古英語 sċort。關鍵在 -y 這個尾巴：它把形容詞變成一個可以拿來叫的名字。這正好解釋了為什麼 shorty 幾乎都是用來「叫」一個人或一款東西，而不是用來描述。把嘻哈裡的用法接到這個畫面上，是意思上的連結，不是歷史上的證據。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1492765948:20334): From short + -y, with the tree Old English sċort > Middle English schort > English short.
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嘻哈裡的稱呼：比我小、跟我近的那個人
還是「指著比較小的那一個」，但這裡的小變成年紀小、或關係上比自己小一號的人，而且語氣從刺變成親。
noun · C1
A young woman — slang used mainly by people who make or listen to hip-hop. With a possessive, as in my shorty, it usually means someone's girlfriend.
（嘻哈用語）女生／女友
指東西：比一般短的那一款
同樣的手勢，只是指的不是人而是貨架上的東西：長版旁邊那件短的，就直接被叫成 shorty。
noun · B2
A thing that is shorter than the usual kind — a short fishing rod, a short coat, and above all a short wetsuit with short legs and short or no sleeves.
短版款