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
A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
It may be said of it, as Thackery said of Gay's pastorals: "It is to poetry what charming little Dresden china figures are to sculpture, graceful, minikin, fantastic, with a certain beauty always accompanying them."
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
With me, my fine treble knave? umh, thou dost tickle minikin as nimbly— Mus.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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