A Midget is an exceptionally short person, generally a person with the medical condition of Dwarfism. The terms "midget" and "dwarf" are often used synonymously, as both mean someone who has been short in stature since birth, but those terms were not originally synonyms. Midget was originally coined in 1865, referring to an extremely short person with limbs similarly proportioned to his body as an average-size person's. P.T. Barnum indirectly helped popularize "midget" when he began featuring G… (More on Hikihito)