mannikin...also spelled manikin, which makes the little man even more diminutive.

And, in checking the spelling of "diminutive," I read the definition and found that it means sortof its own opposite (and I know tsuwm's got at least two terms for that kind of word):

Main Entry: 2diminutive
Function: adjective
Date: 14th century
1 : indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known, lovable, pitiable, or contemptible -- used of affixes (as -ette, -kin, -ling) and of words formed with them (as kitchenette, manikin, duckling), of clipped forms (as Jim), and of altered forms (as Peggy); compare AUGMENTATIVE

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

...so diminutive can mean small with a state of being both lovable and contemptible.

So my little manikin: Am him lovable or am him contemptible?

But in the first sentence on this post, I used "diminutive" to mean the second definition:

2 : exceptionally or notably small : TINY

Enough said about that,
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