midget-esqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

midget +‎ -esque

形容詞

midget-esque ‎(comparative more midget-esque, superlative most midget-esque)

1. Resembling a midget.
   • 1998 January 5, Vermilion, “elf immunities”, in rec.games.frp.dnd, Usenet^[1]:

     Vermilion, who plays elves just because he has an aversion to midget-esque characters

   • 2002 April 21, Mike and Dorcie, “OT: Mrs. Stone for Millennium!”, in alt.tv.frasier, Usenet^[2]:

     In Lost Highway, Robert Blake is midget-esque.

   • 2011, Ricco Saccani, Made in Italy - The Story of an American Conductor (page 96)

     "The intendent's longtime secretary, a stocky, short, almost midget-esque, chain-smoking woman in her 50s with hair bleached yellow who could occasionally be found at her desk held the strings to the whole operation."

   • 2014, Paul Bond, $57M Impairment Charge on 'Mr. Peabody & Sherman, link

     I wonder if he wants to translate the business into Asia predominantly so he won't be so midget-esque.