minikin
Example Sentences
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They are mounted each year with grand ingenuity and minikin budgets.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010
No, she is borne on a whispering bejeweled wind of minikin glittering wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
I and my Tom Thumb of a boat, and my minikin crew, I could well understand, though my hosts spoke in their mother tongue, were the subjects of their incessant and uncontrollable bursts of laughter.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
Come, Sister Annot, leave that minikin fiddle-faddle, and come and help with the real work.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
