Topic: ANTHROPOLOGY
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| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | pygmaeus 'very small in height', from Greek, from pygme 'fist (as a unit of length)' |
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pyg‧my1, pigmy
plural pygmies [countable]
plural pygmies [countable]1 also PygmySASA someone who belongs to a race of very small people, especially one of the tribes of central Africa
2 someone who is not as good, intelligent, strong etc as other people in the same group - used in order to show disapproval : a literary pygmy
a literary pygmy