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Lilliputians meaning
plural of lilliputian
Example sentences (3)
Gulliver assists the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbours, the Blefuscudians, by stealing their fleet.
Perry compares them to the Lilliputians due to them resembling humanity closely, and also the fact they are, on average, only one inch tall.
The terms derive from one of the satirical conflicts in the book, in which two religious sects of Lilliputians are divided between those who crack open their soft-boiled eggs from the little end, and those who use the big end.