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lilliputian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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lilliputian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | small person |
lilliputian:: | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | lilliput |
Examples of lilliputian
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Compare the lilliputian trees to neighboring redwoods on the Fern Canyon Trail.
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The lilliputian airplane is the brainchild of Kirk Hawkins, ICON's founder and CEO.
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At Nottingham, that was practically lilliputian compared to most of the competition.
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In global terms, that is a lilliputian loss record, but the staff are still pilloried.
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Karma offers a lilliputian device with simple, easy-to-understand pricing.
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So a single anchovy assumes whale-like proportions next to lilliputian veg.
From the guardian.co.uk
Rear-passenger space is acceptable for two adults, although the rear doors are lilliputian.
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Lilliputian hallucinations are among the most common, in fact.
From the guardian.co.uk
Lilliputian has raised $34 million from venture companies.
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- A very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
- Tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population"
- A 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift
- Bantam: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
- Fiddling: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts ...
- Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbors in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel eight hundred yards wide. ...
- Petty; trivial, a person who is narrow or petty in outlook
- Miniature people in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1728).
