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
In a very small bag is deposited a little rolled up housewife, furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward
Jack in the pulpit, out and in; Sold his wife for a minikin pin.
From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various
It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by Austen-Leigh, William
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