shorty
/ˈʃɔːti
/(also shortie)
noun (plural shorties) informal
1A person who is shorter than average (often used as a nickname): even shorties like Brain and I had to be careful not to bang our heads Shorty Bowlegs...
- We saddled up, although simply getting on the horse was a trial for a shorty like me.
- Need I remind you the countless hours you spent crying because no one wanted to be friends with the shorty?
- But as a fellow shorty, the Celtic manager is hardly going to judge this as an insurmountable disadvantage.
1.1 [often as modifier] A short garment, especially a short dress, nightdress, or raincoat: she pulled on a shorty nightshirt...
- Titania first appears in a blue silk ball gown, but when retiring she discards the gown to reveal a shortie slip nightdress.
- Katkandu motors through a gap in the barrier reef between South Water Caye and Carrie Bow Caye as we pull on shortie wetsuits, weight belts, tanks, fins.
- The other sister is in a tight-fitting, low-cut black dress under a square-cut shorty jacket with elbow-length sleeves.
Rhymes
- observationalism
- observationalist
- observationality
- observationally
- observation-based
- observation basis
- observation car
- observation cell
- observation deck
- observation mine
- observation post
- observation report
- observation satellite
- observation sentence
- observation statement
- observation term
- observation ward
- observative
- observator
- observatory
- observe
- observedly
- observer
- observership
- observer's paradox