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Example sentences for: diminutive

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During the Watergate scandal President Nixon had to face an even more powerful combination, one that incorporated his own nickname in a double that ended with the negative diminutive - y . Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.
The Hud of Hudson was a nickname for both Richard and Hugh ; another name rooted in Hugh is Hutchins , via the French diminutive Huchon .
Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.
The old lady and the three equally diminutive adults and two small children in her North Country group regularly visited the boating-lake during their holiday, and the staff took a fancy to the expression Mr Rivers had used and would say things like Your grockle family's here and so on.
A capulín is a small, shiny-black fruit, and the title means that the girl's “little eyes”--the diminutive of affection, with no hint that she was beady-eyed--were dark and lustrous.