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pigmy

pig mee

  • n  an unusually small individual
  • n  any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet

  • Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.
  • Also, a pigmy mousebumble-bee size.
  • As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese.
Quotes

  • Danny Carey in Boston Globe (registration)
    Tool is more subtle, but Pigmy is more about drinking beer and wailing -- it's more like hanging out with your brothers,says Carey, who will pound the skins with Pigmy at its gig tonight at Harpers Ferry in Allston.

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