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Lilliputian (adj.)
"diminutive, tiny," literally "pertaining to
Lilliput
," the fabulous island whose inhabitants were six inches high, a name coined by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" (1726). Swift left no explanation of the origin of the word.