pygmy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. capitalized,often
    — I've seen unicorns in Burma and a yeti in Nepal; / and I've danced with ten-foot Pygmies in a Montezuma Hall.
  2. A member of a race of dwarfs. Greek
    — Ctesias lived in Persia for several years, as the personal physician of King Ataxerxes II, and would have had contact with travellers to India, and Indian visitors to Persia. He describes dog-headed humans, pygmy men who grow their beards so long that they can be used as clothes, and affirms that it never rains in India.
  3. Any dwarfish person or thing. derogatory,figuratively,offensive
    — It was so high up that the people walking about in the street below looked like pygmies.
  4. An insignificant person, at least in some respect. derogatory,figuratively,offensive
    — On the world stage Germany is an economic giant but a political pygmy, Britain in comparison a political giant but an economic pygmy.
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.
  2. Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind.
    — Amongst foodgrains, as we travelled from the green South and East towards the dry North and West, the pygmy crop of rice gave way to the tall bajra and jowar.

词形变化

pygmies plural pigmy alternative more pygmy comparative most pygmy superlative pigmy alternative

词汇关系

近义词
dwarf midget pygmyish dwarfish
反义词
giant ettin
衍生词
African pygmy goat American pygmy goat cotton pygmy goose Eurasian pygmy owl micropygmy pygmy backswimmer pygmy blue whale pygmy chimpanzee pygmy cormorant pygmydom pygmy falcon pygmy giant panda pygmy hippo pygmy hippopotamus pygmy hog pygmyhood pygmyish pygmyism pygmy killer whale pygmy loach pygmy marmoset pygmy owl pygmy percher pygmy pipes pygmy placed on the shoulders of giants pygmy possum pygmy rabbit pygmy right whale pygmy sperm whale pygmy squid pygmy tyrant pygmy woodpecker snake and pygmy pie western pygmy blue
相关词
pygmoid Negrito

词源

词源 1
From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”).
词源 2
From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”).
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