dwarfettes

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

   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
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

   Synonyms:

   dwarfess, dwarfmaid, dwarrowdam