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Example sentences for: diminutive

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The "diminutive director" never evinces more stature than when he's looking up in awe.
We are hard put to bring into normal English the diminutive endings that tend to adorn Spanish discourse with such interesting furbelows: caballito, mujercita, amiguito, autito . There is no hesitancy about using even a double diminutive, as in chiquitito.
Primerole probably derives from the Old French primier `first,' with the diminutive suffix - ole , implying smallness.
So, I concluded, when Nellie Griego subliminally translated her Spanish word for fish into English, in the process carrying over the Spanish gender, it was the feminine gender of trucha or its diminutive truchita rather than the masculine gender of pez that she attached to the English word.
Although the terms loonie , a diminutive noun from loon , and loony , an adjective (ultimately) from lunar are etymologically distinct, their similarity has encouraged obvious satirical connections: our economy, which is loony, has as its fundamental unit of currency the loonie; many felt that the policies of Brian Mulroney were loony.