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From lilliputian + -ism; from the name of a fictional island called Lilliput in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From lilliputian + -ism; from the name of a fictional island called Lilliput in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.