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Pigmy

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Pig·my or pig·my  (pgm)
n. & adj.
Variants of Pygmy.
Pigmy [ˈpɪgmɪ]
n pl -mies
(Social Science / Peoples) a variant spelling of Pygmy
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Noun1.Pigmypigmy - an unusually small individual        
pygmy
small person - a person of below average size
2.Pigmy - any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet
Pygmy
small person - a person of below average size
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pigmy pygmy


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He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
These artists will take particles of stone or glass no larger than a mustard seed, and piece them together on a sleeve button or a shirt stud, so smoothly and with such nice adjustment of the delicate shades of color the pieces bear, as to form a pigmy rose with stem, thorn, leaves, petals complete, and all as softly and as truthfully tinted as though Nature had builded it herself.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
" exclaimed Michel; "I should be nothing more than a pigmy, a shrimp
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