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   Munch·kin

   /ˈmən(t)SHkin/

   

   noun

   • 1. a child or short person: informal "teachers are there to greet your little munchkins in the morning"

   Word Origin 1930s (as adjective meaning ‘resembling a child, designed for children’): from the Munchkins, depicted as a race of small childlike creatures, in L. Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).

   Scrabble Points: 19

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   • C

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   • K

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   • I

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