- a variation of Pygmy.
Pigmy
Americannoun
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Pigmies
plural
noun
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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
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
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
Giant and Pigmy Successes Think of "successful" men you know.
From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins
Belonging to the same century is the chapter "Of Pigmies" in Sir Thomas Browne's "Vulgar Errors," wherein he makes several very interesting statements, although he argues from the opposite side.
From Fians, Fairies and Picts by David MacRitchie
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
These other people are called the Pigmies, which means they are very small.
From People of Africa by Edith A. How
They are certainly, on the average, a people of less than middle stature, yet they can in no sense be described as Pigmies.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
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
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