mite:
(plural: ‘mites‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘mi’ rhyme with the word “my”, and ‘mite’ rhymes with “kite” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person of small size;
a small child, especially for whom one feels sorry,
a mite — all alone by himself
e.g.
That poor mite lost his parents in the recent floods.
Though he’s small in size, he fights like a mad bull when people call him a mite.
There have been several political mites in our history, Adolf Hitler, for example, who have shown greater will-power and charisma than those people with good physic and looks.
For an article about a TV show with the name ‘Dyn-O-Mite! in which the word mite refers to a small man,
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Note: ‘Mite’ is more commonly used to refer to any small insect, and also to refer to a ‘small amount of something’, e.g. “Please, add a mite of salt in the soup; it’s a mite bland.” & “He looks a mite strange. Is he all right?”. For an article that discusses the mites (insect), please click here. For an article in which we see this word being used for a very old coin, please click here.
