Usually means: Very small person; often offensive.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word midget:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. midget: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. midget: Merriam-Webster
  3. midget: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. midget: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. midget: Collins English Dictionary
  6. midget: Vocabulary.com
  7. Midget, midget: Wordnik
  8. midget: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. midget: Wiktionary
  10. midget: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. midget: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. midget: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. midget: Dictionary.com
  14. midget: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. midget: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Midget (band), Midget (disambiguation), Midget: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Midget: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. midget: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. midget: Rhymezone
  20. Midget: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. MIDGET: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. midget: FreeDictionary.org
  23. midget: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. midget: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Midget: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. Midget: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. midget: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. midget: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Midget: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. midget: Medical dictionary
  5. Midget: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MIDGET: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. midget: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Midget: Glossary of Cheese Terms

(Note: See midgeting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (originally) A little sandfly.
noun:  (loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge.
noun:  (sometimes offensive) A normally-proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
noun:  (sometimes offensive) Any short person.
noun:  (attributively, now sometimes offensive) A small version of something; miniature.

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