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dwarfy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈdwɔɹ.fi/ (General-American)
• /ˈdwɔː.fi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From dwarf + -y.

Meanings

1. Much undersized; dwarfish.
   • […] Adam vvas thus abſtracted from humane feculencies, and carryed above the perch and flight of the narrovv and dvvarfie proſpect of mortality; […] 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 487:

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