munchkin

Definitions


[ˈmʌn(t)ʃkɪn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a child or short person
(e.g: teachers are there to greet your little munchkins in the morning)


Phrases:

Origin:
1930s (as adjective meaning ‘resembling a child, designed for children’): from the Munchkins, depicted as a race of small childlike creatures, in L. Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)




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