Pigmy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PIGMY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a small person, also PYGMY
• a member of certain peoples of very short stature in equatorial Africa and parts of SE Asia. Pygmies (e.g. the Mbuti and Twa peoples) are typically nomadic hunter-gatherers with an average male height not above 150 cm (4 ft 11 in.).
• a very small person, animal, or thing
• a person who is insignificant or is deficient in a particular respect
• See Pygmy.
• an unusually small individual
• any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet
ADJECTIVE:
• used in names of animals and plants that are much smaller than more typical kinds, e.g. pygmy shrew, pygmy water lily.
• very small or insignificant.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as pygmy

Words related to PIGMY

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How to use PIGMY in a sentence

• Here are no pigmy mounds dignified with the name of mountains, no rivulets swelled into rivers.
• What the Yorkshiremen desired to make for themselves was a pigmy, prick-eared terrier with a long, silky, silvery grey and tan coat.
• Yet he saw no reason to fight, for that shrinking, white-faced pigmy crouching on the rock made no movement to offer him battle.
• Twenty-three trout, and not a pigmy among them, lay at our feet.
• And the object of this self-made giant, men-man, is to destroy another like himself, or the separate pigmy members of another such giant.
• Louis county, a number of pigmy graves were discovered.
• As he was walking one day with Vishnoo, the insolent ocean asked the god who the pigmy was that strutted by his side.
• The giant was to be killed by a pigmy scarce larger than one of his own huge weapons.
• Niagara, which I have often seen, is a pigmy cataract in comparison.
• Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions, the Pigmy to the fever-rotten jungles of Africa.
• The Royal Exchange of London, though a fine building, is a pigmy beside this massive and colossal structure.
• She had only to stand up to him, it seemed, and like the giant of the fable he dwindled to a pigmy.
• But still, if a pigmy, let her do what a pigmy may do.
• In reality, here is the oldest of old worlds, in which pigmy man is not even of yesterday, but only of to-day.
• He and his friends had undertaken a great fight with the mighty Ocean, which now played with them as a giant with a pigmy.
• In the Pigmy scale the words for 1 and 6 are so closely akin that one cannot resist the impression that 6 was to them a new 1, and was thus named.
• After that his growth stopped completely, and he remained for the rest of his life a pigmy of three feet and four inches.
• When the Spaniards tried to board, Cochrane simply shoved his pigmy craft a few yards away from the side of his foe, and this curious fight went on for an hour.
• Trusting that such a pigmy as the Yellow Dwarf would not dare to contend with so gallant a person as the King of the Golden Mines, she fixed upon that prince for her husband.
• Behind this pigmy figure stretched a cliff, more than one hundred feet in height, of sheer rock overgrown with bushes.
• By an act of the will he can make himself a moral giant, or dwarf himself to a pigmy.
• America saw the pigmy fighting the giant rather than let him pass over Belgian soil.
• But though in pigmy wanderings dull I scour the deserts of his skull, I never find the face, eyes, teeth.
• The giant and the pigmy are alike active in seeking out and finding out many inventions.
• About it the pigmy struggle still hung in suspense, but now the red defenders were no longer firing.
• A giant chestnut gives us little dots of shade from its pigmy leaves.
• How generous he is! The colossus which is the pedestal contemplates the pigmy which is the statue.
• That explanation he found in his theory that all the accounts of pigmy tribes were based upon the mistakes of travellers who had taken apes for men.
• Moreover, certain of these races have been, at least tentatively, identified with the pigmy tribes of Pliny, Herodotus, Aristotle, and other writers.
• The German explorer Hassler has alleged the existence of a pigmy race in Brazil, but testimony is wanting to support such allegation.
• The soul is supposed by various races to be a little man, an idea which at once links the manes of the departed with Pigmy people.
• Yankee thrift was as pigmy play to these owners of bursting coffers.
• Small cataracts tore in desperate haste down the slope of the garden-paths, laying bare in their pigmy fury the lower strata of rough gravel and pebbles.

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