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Lilliput|ˈlɪlɪpʌt|
The name of an imaginary country in Gulliver's Travels (1726), peopled by pygmies six inches high. Used attrib.= diminutive. Occas. n., a person of diminutive size, a child.
1867Whitman Carol of Harvest 3 The lilliput, countless armies of the grass. 1879J. Burroughs Locusts and W. Honey (1884) 69 One of these Lilliput frogs..leaped near me. 1890Daily News 17 Dec. 2/1 It is easy enough to decide on what to give the Lilliputs [sc. children]. |