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Example sentences for: diminutive

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One wouldn't want to characterize the diminutive, balding rock star as being (in Cole Porter's marvelous phrase) down in the depths on the 90 th floor, but a faint tinge of melancholy hangs in the air.
The "diminutive director" never evinces more stature than when he's looking up in awe.
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.
Merrill (Bob) chose the diminutive deliberately to avoid confusion with Merrill (Robert), though it's hard to see why anyone would think a fellow who makes his living singing Mozart and Verdi would go home at night and write "If I Knew You Were Comin', I'd've Baked a Cake."
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.