Citations:munchkin

Noun: "(informal) a child"

 * 2002 — Heidi Bratton, Making Peace with Motherhood… and Creating a Better You, Paulist Press (2002), ISBN 0809140764, page 172:
 * With baby #3 at school, I would only have two munchkins at home in the morning (Lucy, 3 1/2, and Benjamin, almost 2).
 * 2002 — Tracy Hogg (with Melinda Blau), Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, Ballantine Books (2002), ISBN 0345440803, page 205:
 * I've found that if you don't have a definitive ending to a group, the moms continue to chat. Before you know it another ten or fifteen minutes have gone by, and the little munchkins start getting tired and cranky.
 * 2004 — Stuart J. Altman, The Kidfixer Baby Book: An Easy-to-Use Guide to Your Baby's First Year, Ballantine Books (2004), ISBN 9780812970173, page 4:
 * There an an awful lot of munckins out there with a pretty interesting variety of moms. And guess what? Not all of these parents are rocket scientists.
 * 2006 — Michelle LaRowe, Nanny to the Rescue!: Straight Talk & Super Tips for Parenting in the Early Years, Thomas Nelson (2006), ISBN 9780849912320, page 124:
 * Picture this: your child begins his first day of group childcare, and he is suddenly surrounded by other munchkins his age
 * 2006 — Roberta Rehner Iversen & Annie Laurie Armstrong, Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families, Temple University Press (2006), ISBN 159213355X, page 68:
 * Within a month of exiting the intensive eighteen-month treatment program Isabell finally unites with Domingo and her two sons. As Isabell said, "I barely knew how to feed my own face and I ended up with these two little munchkins."
 * 2009 — Wade Powers, The Covenant Divorce Recovery Leader's Handbook, Xulon Press (2009), ISBN 9781604774283, page 45:
 * The focus needs to be, once again, on the children. If your ex is a liar or a promise breaker then you've no need to drive that into the munchkins' heads.
 * 2009 — Karyn Bryant, "School Time = Me Time At Last!", momlogic.com, 25 August 2009:
 * My little munchkin will be a preschooler this time next week, and I can hardly stand the wait.

Noun: "(informal) a person of very short stature"

 * 1995 — Robert J. Lopez, "Fire Dept. Probe Finds No Evidence of Sexism", Los Angeles Times, 15 March 1995:
 * In her interview with investigators, the counselor denied making such derogatory statements but did acknowledge that, "while in a discussion regarding height requirements, that she said that if she ever had a fire she wouldn't want any little people or munchkins coming to her house," the report said.
 * 1995 — Stephanie Comer, "Base Housing Helpful and Creative Challenge", The Fayetteville Observer, 7 September 1995:
 * As for storage space, well, most of the houses might have enough for a family of munchkins but not normal people.
 * 2009 — Jonathan Salem Baskin, "Will Nokia's Next Chapter Be Kitchen Blenders?", InformationWeek's Digital Life Weblog, 25 August 2009:
 * It'll also have a keyboard configured for a munchkin
 * 2011 — Debora M. Coty, "Humor Thy Father and Mother", in Heavenly Humor for the Dieter's Soul: 75 Low-Cal Inspirational Readings, Barbour Publishing (2011), ISBN 9781607426240, unnumbered page:
 * Maybe it was because I was a moose in a family of munchkins. Mama's father was of slight build, five feet nothing in height, yet taller than his four daughters and granddaughters. They were all tiny, toothpick people.