| 词汇 | lilliputian |
| 词源 | lilliputian. The Lilliputians of the island of Lilliput in Jonath- an Swift’s satiric novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) are little people averaging six inches tall. Thus lilliputian, which suggests “little” in sound as well, has come to mean tiny or diminutive. See brobdingnagian. |
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