Lilliput

[ lil-i-puht, -puht ]

/ ˈlɪl ɪˌpʌt, -pət /

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noun

an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 centimeters) tall, described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

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The figures are as small as Jorge Flores’s eyeballs as he peers into the window of the barbershop, like Gulliver in the land of Lilliput.
His collection of miniatures from around the world fills 16 rooms. And he’s not done yet.|Eddie Dean|October 18, 2021|Washington Post
Mara, of course, has that other-worldly star aura: remarkably perfect skin and a body from Lilliput.
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards Honor the Next Big Designers|Robin Givhan|November 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He knew that around the center they contemptuously called him "Lilliput."
Warning from the Stars|Ron Cocking
Faithful to the promise of his great master, the youthful Cavalcadour called in Lilliput Street the next day.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's|William Makepeace Thackeray

Then, the masked shrew—for so we humans have named this escape from Lilliput—flashed out into the open.
Wild Folk|Samuel Scoville
It was a satire, of course—Gulliver's Lilliput outdone—a sort of scientific, socialistic, mathematical jamboree.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
Arbuthnot says he "lent the book to an old gentleman, who went immediately to his map to search for Lilliput."
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)|Isaac D'Israeli

Lilliput

[ (lil-i-puht) ]

The first land that Lemuel Gulliver visits in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. The inhabitants, though human in form, are only six inches tall.

Something “lilliputian” (lil-i-pyooh-shuhn) is very small. The expression is especially appropriate for a miniature version of something.