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Definition of Mannikin
1. Noun. A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal.
2. Noun. A woman who wears clothes to display fashions. "She was too fat to be a mannequin"
Generic synonyms: Assistant, Help, Helper, Supporter
Specialized synonyms: Supermodel
Derivative terms: Model
3. Noun. A life-size dummy used to display clothes.
Definition of Mannikin
1. Noun. any of several Asiatic passerine birds of the genus ''Mannikin'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mannikin
1. manikin [n -S] - See also: manikin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mannikin
Literary usage of Mannikin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1905)
"Palace, and everything is being draped in But still the mannikin kept her back,
black," was the Princess's reply. " Not yet," said he. ..."
2. Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof by John Pendleton Kennedy (1840)
"THE NORTHERN MAN WITH SOUTHERN PRINCIPLES AND HIS mannikin. TIME held his course.
Another year went by, and brought us to the Sixth since the Removal. ..."
3. Russian and Nomad by Edward Nelson Fell (1916)
"THE mannikin. ON the evening of the fifteenth of January, 1905, Harter, our chief
mining engineer, and I were sitting on a small dump of low-grade ore, ..."
4. Holme Lee's Fairy Tales by Holme Lee (1869)
"... but as for his making one in the lark-pie, he did not believe it, for he had
just seen the face of mannikin Hope through the hole in the wall. ..."
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