Definitions for Pigmy

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Pigmy Pig·my

Spelling: [pig-mee]

IPA: /ˈpɪg mi/

Pigmy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Pigmy (gimpy).

Definitions for Pigmy

noun

1. Pygmy.
2. Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
3. (lowercase) Disparaging and Offensive. a small or dwarfish person.
4. (lowercase) anything very small of its kind.
5. (lowercase) a person who is of small importance, or who has some quality, attribute, etc., in very small measure.
6. Classical Mythology. (in the Iliad) one of a race of dwarfs who fought battles with cranes, who preyed on them and destroyed their fields.

adjective

1. (often lowercase) of or relating to the Pygmies.
2. (lowercase) of very small size, capacity, power, etc.

Origin of Pigmy

1350-1400; Middle English pigmēis, plural of pigmē Latin Pygmaeus Greek pygmaîos dwarfish (adj.), Pygmy (noun), equivalent to pygm(ḗ) distance from elbow to knuckles + -aios adj. suffix

Examples for Pigmy

This he jerked up and down to make ready for his task of thrashing "the Pigmy."

Save for the head they are more like Pigmy Angora sheep than anything.

What this Pigmy band thought it could do against our armed men, I do not know.

How does the Pigmy measure the enormous monument that is the human body?

There is only one answer to that question, for the battle is one between the Pigmy and the giant.

Here a number of the Pigmy bees are stationed to act the part of sentinels.

Nature is God, Anna, and the greatest artist of us all a Pigmy.

With a lightning movement he took aim, but the Pigmy was too quick for him.

It was a Pigmy confronting a giant; but my blood was boiling.

As they rose to breathe, their noses were lashed by Pigmy waves.