mannikin
1
9.9
A very small person who looks normal
- noun
- /ˈmænɪkɪn/
- Archaic
:
enano
- Despite its small size, the mannikin was detailed enough to pose for photographs.
Examples
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The little girl had a tiny mannikin that she took everywhere with her.
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In the art class, we used a mannikin to practice drawing human proportions.
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For example, the distribution of a geographically widespread grass finch, the hooded mannikin, had always struck me as peculiar.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
4
9.9
A very small human figure in stories or old scientific ideas
is used for real very small individuals not myth or fiction
small person
vsmannikin
3
1.8
A person who is shorter than most people and has a light build
is much smaller in size not just slightly below average
1
8.5
A person who is much smaller than most people
is the standard spelling form for that same meaning
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mannikin comes from the old Dutch manneken, which means 'little man', made from man and -kin meaning 'little'. So a mannikin can mean a very small person because it began as a word for a 'little man'.