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pygmy

/pig-mee/US // ˈpɪg mi //UK // (ˈpɪɡmɪ) //

侏儒,侏儒症,侏儒症患者,侏儒的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural Pyg·mies.

    • : Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa.a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
    • : Disparaging and Offensive. a small or dwarfish person.
    • : anything very small of its kind.
    • : a person who is of small importance, or who has some quality, attribute, etc., in very small measure.
    • : Classical Mythology. one of a race of dwarfs who fought battles with cranes, who preyed on them and destroyed their fields.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the Pygmies.
    • : of very small size, capacity, power, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • To make matters worse, the pygmy goat did not even belong to Thompson; it had been stolen from a 4-year-old boy.

  • Pygmy hippos are a distinct sub-species to their larger cousins the common hippopotamus.

  • With only a half million natives (and another half million foreign workers) Bahrain is a pygmy in Arab politics.

  • Reading Pygmy is like trying to do a crossword puzzle while riding a horse underwater.

  • “So corrupt, evil, vile American liberal culture, such United States pretension,” as Pygmy reports.

  • After entering the great primeval forest Mr. Lloyd went west for five days without the sight of a Pygmy.

  • He journeyed for three weeks in the Pygmy forest and had excellent opportunities for examining its inhabitants.

  • They are lacking, like the Pygmy races in general, in the art of chipping stone, one of the earliest arts acquired by man.

  • A large clearing may have eight to twelve of these Pygmy camps around it, with perhaps two thousand inmates.

  • He felt very much of a pygmy and very helpless as he scrambled about over the icy decks.