Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diminutive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Indicating diminution; diminutive.
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- adjective Indicating
diminution ;diminutive .
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[‘Chicken’ is properly a singular, old English _cicen_, the _-en_ being a diminutival, not a plural, suffix (as in ‘kitten’, ‘maiden’).
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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