Definitions for Pygmy

Pygmy Pyg·my

Spelling: [pig-mee]
IPA: /ˈpɪg mi/

Pygmy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Pygmy (gmpyy).

Definitions for Pygmy

noun

  1. Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
  2. (lowercase) Disparaging and Offensive. a small or dwarfish person.
  3. (lowercase) anything very small of its kind.
  4. (lowercase) a person who is of small importance, or who has some quality, attribute, etc., in very small measure.
  5. 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 Pygmy

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 Pygmy

They ran their eyes down the long table; every person there was a Pygmy.

To make matters worse, the Pygmy goat did not even belong to Thompson; it had been stolen from a 4-year-old boy.

"This one might be a Pygmy, for all we know," said the Very Young Man.

Had I brought with me or did I hear now a whispered: "Pygmy, again!"

“So corrupt, evil, vile American liberal culture, such United States pretension,” as Pygmy reports.

It was no Pygmy undertaking upon which the Americans had embarked.

Pygmy hippos are a distinct sub-species to their larger cousins the common hippopotamus.

With only a half million natives (and another half million foreign workers) Bahrain is a Pygmy in Arab politics.

It was written about in the Pygmy histories, and talked about in their ancient traditions.

Reading Pygmy is like trying to do a crossword puzzle while riding a horse underwater.

Word Value for Pygmy
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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