Adjective: smol
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | smoler; smoller |
| Superlative | smolest; smollest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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Smol doggos with cute messy hair from the rain. [2017 September 28, “Nope/Dope”, in The Rocky Mountain Collegian, page 8:]
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However, our penchant for smol puppers means lots more people are breeding these so-called teacup dogs. [2018 June 26, Jessica Lindsay, “Meet Otis-Woody, the dog gunning for the record of smallest pug in the UK”, in Metro:]
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A baby octopus the size of a pea was hitchhiking on a piece of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean when Hawaiian researchers spotted it and scooped up the smol, smol cephalopod. [2018 October 25, Mindy Weisberger, “Ridiculously Tiny Baby Octopus Riding Ocean Trash Is So, So Smol”, in Live Science:]
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UwU Conservativism, and the end of smol government [2024 June 19, Bagehot, “Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly”, in The Economist:]
Etymology
Eye dialect of small.