minikin
Americannoun
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a person or object that is delicate, dainty, or diminutive.
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a printing type (about 3½ point).
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of minikin
1535–45; < Middle Dutch minneken friend, lover, equivalent to minne love + -ken -kin
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
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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin
"No great mystery; only——" "Only—some minikin mystery?" said Mr. Walsingham.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Maria Edgeworth
Jack in the pulpit, out and in; Sold his wife for a minikin pin.
From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various
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