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
This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his of angling with a minikin, a gut- string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron
A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
With me, my fine treble knave? umh, thou dost tickle minikin as nimbly— Mus.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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