Pygmy
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- (often capitalized, usually in the plural: Pygmies) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature
- The Bantu immigration drove many Pygmy tribes into the darkest jungle, while other Pygmies were reduced to cohabitation in a subservient status
- Greek mythology A member of a race of dwarfs
- Homer and Herodote mentioned Pygmies in India (which would fit the Andamanese Negritoes) or Ethiopia (then meaning all Subsaharan Africa)
- figurative' Any dwarfish person
- Everyone looked like Pygmies whenever giant Joe joined his classmates
- figurative An insignificant person, at least in some respect
- Despite his towering stature, the minister proved a political pygmy
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