Meanings of diminutive form in English

The diminutive form of the boy stood in the aperture.

Velimai's diminutive form flitted about the kitchen preparing breakfast.

Custom satisfied, son and mother also hugged, Brappa's wings overlapping and enveloping Ki's diminutive form.

Atop him rode the diminutive form of Artie Brower whom I had thought down and out.

The master, for so he evidently was, had a meagre, wan, countenance; and a diminutive form.

The Graceland Suite is undoubtedly the most celebrated, given that it is an imitation Graceland mansion in diminutive form.

Cosmo Versál was the only cool man there, and his diminutive form presented a striking contrast to the others.

When the term was coined, using the diminutive form meant that it was a refined or improved version of the original.

I aimed for my list to be very comprehensive, and it often repeats the same word in a plural or diminutive form.

I think my son is not guilty, Dmitrichenko's mother Nadezhda said in the courtroom, referring to her son by the diminutive form.

It is simply the diminutive form of an obsolete word meaning "father," and is usually applied to all village priests.

It is an armadillo, the precursor of a race still abounding in the land, though of diminutive form compared to its mighty predecessor.

I hunched over beside Murphy's diminutive form and tried to shroud what I was doing with the dark folds of my black duster.

They used to be the wallflowers of the wine world, despised for their diminutive form, shunned for their modest nature and left on the shelf.

The sturdy but diminutive form and the curly head and frowning countenance which stood confronting her were none other than those of Pee-wee Harris, B.S.A.

John Heywood had such a little, diminutive form, and the king's throne was so large and broad, that it altogether concealed the little crouching fool.