Lit|tle-end|i|an

Lit|tle-end|i|an
Lit|tle-end|i|an or lit|tle-end|i|an «LIHT uhl EHN dee|uhn», noun.
1. a member of the orthodox religious party in Lilliput (in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels) who maintained, in opposition to the Bigendians, that eggs should be broken at the little end.
2. Figurative. a disputer about trifles.

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