Peewee

Usage examples of shortie.

Harold, as the wife of an officer, was at liberty to take out a party of friends in one of the Academy launches, so she promptly got together a congenial dozen, Ralph, Happy, Shortie, Wheedles and Durand, Captain Pennell and four others besides Polly and herself, and in the crispness of the Indian Summer afternoon, steamed away up the Severn to Round Bay.

When I think of Fee-5 and Poulos, the Shortie killings, the—.

If this is the way you Hemnoids are, I'm not sure I don't like Shorties better, after all.

But certainly we seem stuck with a world now in which we are not alone, in which we must deal with Shorties and Fatties, and maybe other creatures, too.

Of course, now that you've given my people a clearer picture of what Shorties are like— Nothing wins like a winner, you know," said One Man, pontifically.

Temperamentally, I can admit to you now, I suppose, you Shorties are a lot more akin to us than those Fatties.

You see, evidently you Shorties have high hopes of setting up Dilbian-Humans teams—" John looked at One Man in surprise.

When the other Shorties decided to bring you in here, they looked me up right away.

Well, you Shorties can't let an outlaw like Bone Breaker hang on to one of your females like that and think the farmers around here are going to pay any attention to you when you try to teach them tricks with those picks and shovels and plows and things you brought them!

I won't marry that Bone Breaker unless he gives up his outlaw ways and settles down to being a farmer here in Muddy Nose, like you Shorties say everybody in the Lowlands should do.

Flat Fingers obviously had a pretty low opinion of Shorties, physically at least.

And by the time of his death, he had become one of the richest and best known male Shorties around.

It's all very well doing tricks—everybody knows you Shorties have got all kinds of tricks up your sleeves.

That's why, in spite of the fact that we're so much smaller than real men and Fatties, we Shorties don't have to take a back seat to anybody.

It's a shame, that's what it is—an absolute shame, the way the men of this village stand around and let the wool be pulled over their eyes by Shorties like you, with no regard for customs and manners and traditions!