The name of an imaginary country in Gulliver’s Travels (1726), peopled by pygmies six inches high. Used attrib. = diminutive. Occas. sb., a person of diminutive size, a child.
1867. Whitman, Carol of Harvest, 3, in Galaxy, Sept., 605. The lilliput, countless armies of the grass.
1879. J. Burroughs, Locusts & Wild Honey, 54. One of these lilliput frogs … leaped near me.
1890. Daily News, 17 Dec., 2/1. It is easy enough to decide on what to give the Lilliputs [sc. children].
