- a variation of Pygmy.
Pigmy
Americannoun
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Pigmies
plural
noun
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Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.
From Time Magazine Archive
By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be that as it may, the Pigmy had the better of the Colossus.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
Tales of little people are to be found in countries where there never were any Pigmy races.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
Place sinnes with Gold, and the strong Lance of Iustice, hurtlesse breakes: Arme it in ragges, a Pigmies straw do's pierce it.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
That night the gentleman read The Battle of the Pigmies and the Cranes, while his wife read the evening edition of the Lurid Paragraph.
From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent
Pigmies, Pompeian pictures of, 15, 17-19; described by Pliny, 17; uses of, 18.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
Pigmies are pigmies still, though perch’d on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
At every period the geographers of this nation have placed their River of Pigmies much more to the south.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
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