diminutive
/dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/ noun C2- A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment. · Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’.
- The smallest, thinnest version of a traditional heraldic ordinary ("geometric shape on a shield"), often used to represent multiple instances of a charge or to modify a main, central, and larger charge; not itself modifiable.
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Australians developed a profound linguistic fondness for diminutive word forms.
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