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minikin

[min-i-kin] / ˈmɪn ɪ kɪn /












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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.

From The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

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

It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by Austen-Leigh, William