little people

little people
n
1. elves, fairies, leprechauns, imps, brownies, dwarfs, gnomes, trolls, fays, pixies, nymphs, dryads, sprites, sylphs.
2. midgets, shrimps, runts, pee-wees, squirts, pipsqueaks, half-pints, small-fries, Inf. shorties, Lilliputians, Chiefly Scot. wee fellows or laddies.
3. commonalty, the great unnumbered, the general public, the public, the many; the masses, the humbler classes, rank and file; populace, citizenry, proletariat, hoi polloi, bourgeoisie; commoners, peasantry, salt-of-the-earth; the lower classes, low life, underlings, Inf. the great unwashed; mob, rabble, hoard, herd, rout.

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