Definitions for Pygmies

Pygmies Pyg·my

Spelling: [pig-mee]
IPA: /ˈpɪg mi/

Pygmies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in Pygmies (egimpsy).

Definitions for Pygmies

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 Pygmies

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 Pygmies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for Pygmies
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

Similar words for Pygmies
Word of the day