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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A very small person or being
- adj. Very small, diminutive
- adj. Trivial, petty
Etymologies
- After Lilliput, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was diminutive.
Examples
“Even MORE tickled pink to discover that Duane (who is very active on a yahoo group called “low cost wargaming”) had made a set with painted closepins as the pirates, and little craftee bits as the lilliputian villagers.”
Pirates, Flattery and Disappointment in Lilliput!! « Third Point of Singularity
“Despite high gas prices, lilliputian offerings feel like bolder moves than sport-tuned SUVs—at least stateside.”
“Spur got marks for being “playful and ambitious,” Poppy for the “lilliputian creations” on its thalis and for inventive cocktails.”
“But soccer is in a lilliputian class all by itself.”
“Poking one's head inside one of Matton's enclosures is being Gulliver trespassing into another reality and expecting the room's lilliputian occupants to return any moment.”
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“Just picture pearl onions swimming in a steaming bowl of peas, a plate of buttery, baby potatoes, or those glazed, lilliputian ears of corn mingling with water chestnuts and snowpeas in chow mein.”
“But I must confess, after a fortnight of driving successive MPVs, I was eager to return to the lilliputian world of a four-seater or, even better, a two-seater.”
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“Her life's blood pumped out of the wound he was gnawing at in lilliputian spurts, the stain slowly spreading across the cheap cotton weave of her buttoned-up blouse.”
“Today on BoingBoing gadgets, we poured ourself one from the firehose, studied from the codex of lilliputian laptops and, still thirsty, drank some vitamin water, which, in defiance of physics, mixes just fine with snake oil.”
“KO's "special diatribe" was histrionic, voluble, and quintessentially lilliputian.”
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