- a variation of Pygmy.
Pigmy
Americannoun
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Pigmies
plural
noun
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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
Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.
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
The only losses on this station were the capture of two gun-brigs, after a very gallant defence, by a flotilla of very superior force, off Granville; and the Pigmy cutter, which was wrecked near Jersey.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross
Curlew Sandpiper, or Pigmy Curlew as it is sometimes called, can only be considered a rare occasional visitant to the Channel Islands.
From Birds of Guernsey (1879) And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands by Cecil Smith
Captayne? s'hart, and thou hast under thy charge any other then Pigmies I am a Gogmagog.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
I have elsewhere expressed my obligations to M. De Quatrefage's book on Pigmies, obligations which will be at once recognised by those familiar with that monograph.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
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
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
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