Algernon. [raising his hat.] you are my little cousin cecily, i’m sure. cecily. you are under some strange mistake. i am not little. in fact, i believe i am more than usually tall for my age. –the importance of being earnest, oscar wilde the pun in this passage relies on which two definitions of the word little? “narrow” “younger” “unimportant” “brief” “small in size”