dwarfette

Noun

dwarfette (plural dwarfettes)

1. (dated) A human female with dwarfism.
   • I’ve just come from the bull-fight, a very good one, so tense at one point that I had to wash down a pinkie with a great gulp of Scotch in my little flask, am now half in and half out of the conscious world. It is pretty good here. All the little black dwarfettes are still scuttling about, and a...1955, Tennessee Williams, letter dated 17 July 1955, printed in Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982 (1990), page 121
   • She's a spindly twig of a girl, dwarfette, stands about even with his joystick, about the same looks department as Bridget, sub-basement.1995, Adam Barrow, Flawless, page 87

   Synonyms:

   dwarfess

2. (broadly, informal) A woman of somewhat short stature, or one who seems small in relation to something larger.
   • This is their [the humpback whales'] breeding season, their calving season too, and they've got enough problems with all the boat and plane and jet ski traffic around Maui without some ridiculous dwarfette water-nerd with terrible eyesight and silly black chicken feet snorkeling around in their...1997, Jessica Maxwell, Femme d'Aadventure: Travel Tales from Inner Montana to Outer Mongolia, page 176
   • All this thanks to her [the statue's] towering stature: nine feet high, practically twice the average height of our national dwarfettes.2004, Vicente Leñero (trans. Lorna Scott Fox & Rubén Gallo), "La Diana", The Mexico City Reader (ed. Rubén Gallo), page 152
3. A female of the dwarf race.
   • Her outstanding feature was her nose, an enormous pyramid-shaped nose which reminded me of clowns, gargoyles, dwarfettes, cartoon gnomes.2008, Michael Pastore, “The Grapes of Roth”, in The Zorba Anthology of Love Stories, page 266
   • Yimt smiled up at him. "I'm happily married, remember? And even if I was unhappily married, dwarfettes take marital vows seriously. Did you know they don't wear a wedding ring? Chafes their finger when swinging an axe, which, as it happens, is the traditional marriage gift a mother gives her...2009, Chris Evans, The Light of Burning Shadows, page 153

   Synonyms:

   dwarfess, dwarfmaid, dwarrowdam