Munchkin
Munchkin in the children's fantasy The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), US writer: any of a race of small, child-like creatures who help Dorothy in her quest for the city of Oz; the term is used allusively for a small or mischievous person or a child.
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