midget
n. countablen. an extremely small person. This word is now considered very offensive and you should avoid using it to describe people.
n. a person of exceptionally small stature. Highly offensive in contemporary usage; the term is widely rejected by the community it describes in favour of 'person with dwarfism' or 'little person'.
The term midget is now considered a slur.
Advocacy groups have spent decades explaining why the word midget is harmful and should be removed from public discourse.
From midge (chiefly in the figurative sense of “small thing”, literally “small fly”) + -et (diminutive suffix), (from Old English myċġ (“mosquito”), from Proto-Germanic mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European mus-, mu-, mew-; cognate with Dutch mug (“mosquito”) and German Mücke (“midge, gnat”)).
Highly offensive; avoid in all professional and social contexts.
He is a midgetHe is a person with dwarfismThe headword is considered a slur; use 'person with dwarfism' or 'little person' to be respectful.