midgets

Noun

midget (plural midgets)

1. (derogatory, sometimes) A very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison.
   • the midget pony

   Antonyms:

   giant

2. (derogatory, offensive) A short person.
   • They [children] realize their oughts no less sharply than their crosses; and this even though they are midgets in a land of giants who have forgotten much of their language and whose right is often founded solely on force majeure.1930, Walter de la Mare, Poems for Children, London: Constable & Co., →OCLC, page xxix; republished in “[The Children’s Bookshop] Children and Childhood”, in Henry Seidel Canby, editor, The Saturday...

   Synonyms:

   dwarf, short-ass//short-arse, shortie//shorty, titch, munchkin

   Antonyms:

   giant

3. (attributive, derogatory) Something for use by a small person; especially something designed or made for one.

   Synonyms:

   dwarf, munchkin, elf