Runt vs Midget - What's the difference?
runt | midget |
The smallest animal of a litter, or,
The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
(computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
(originally) A little sandfly.
(loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge
A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
(sometimes derogatory) Any short person.
(attributively) That is a small version of something; miniature
As nouns the difference between runt and midget
is that runt is the smallest animal of a litter, or while midget is a little sandfly.runt
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
- Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.
Anagrams
* turn ----midget
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you manyfold till you itch all over your unprotected skin
- the midget pony
