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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shorty" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used in informal contexts to refer to a short person or can be used as a term of endearment for someone younger or smaller in stature.
Example: "I saw my friend with her new boyfriend, and he's definitely a shorty compared to her."
Alternatives: "a little one" or "a small person".
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I even had a Shorty grandma and a Spooky grandma (named for their respective cats).
Viner Gabriel Gundacker was a Shorty Awards finalist for Vine Comedian in 2015.
Or I am, as my siblings say, "Forty and still a shorty".
The Dodge Dart Registry has now won the company a Shorty Award for best social media campaign in the auto industry.
I thought my Jesus piece was so harmless, / till I seen a picture of a shorty armless, and here's the conflict.
He has a cowboy bravado that some Mexicans like, and he has turned his pungent country-style language on Mr. Labastida, calling him a "shorty" and a "wimp".
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She identifies as a bruja and a tomboy, a classic New York Boricua shorty, a feminist, a queer woman who isn't burdened, but empowered by her complexity.
"See a little shorty, I give a wink with my eye because she's the kind of mami I wanna objectify," Chin sings in the video.
The cart was packed with belongings and, on top of a blanket, was Shorty, a small dog of indeterminate mixture, one part of which was Corgi.
In the 2002 video for "Rock Star," a song by his group N.E.R.D., Mr. Williams wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a logo from Shorty's, a Santa Barbara, Calif., skate shop, and performed atop a ramp as skaters careered past him.
He had a carbine shorty perched on his hip, Stallone-style.
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