Midget vs. Shortie

Midgetnoun

(originally) A little sandfly.

‘Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you till you itch all over your unprotected skin.’;

Shortienoun

Something or someone that is shorter than normal

‘That squirrel is a shortie.’;

Midgetnoun

(loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge

Shortienoun

(ice hockey) An short-handed goal

‘They got a shortie at the start of the third.’;

Midgetnoun

A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".

Shortienoun

(African American Vernacular English) an adult female or a child.

Midgetnoun

(sometimes derogatory) Any short person.

Shortieadjective

shorter than normal

‘That is a shortie squirrel.’;

Midgetnoun

(attributively) A small version of something; miniature.

‘the midget pony’;

Midgetnoun

A minute bloodsucking fly.

Midgetnoun

A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the body parts; compare dwarf.

Midgetnoun

a person who is abnormally small

Midgetadjective

very small;

‘diminutive in stature’; ‘a lilliputian chest of drawers’; ‘her petite figure’; ‘tiny feet’; ‘the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy’;

Midget

Midget (from midge, a sand fly) is a term for a person of unusually short stature that is considered by some to be pejorative. While not a medical term, it has been applied to persons of unusually short stature, often with dwarfism, a medical condition with a number of causes including achondroplasia, and particularly proportionate dwarfism.