Associations to the word «Lilliput»

Wiktionary

LILLIPUT, noun. Any of various small mussels of the genus Toxolasma.

Dictionary definition

LILLIPUT, noun. A land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope