Aaron Helton @aaronhelton.com · Dec 13 David Arora offers this explanation. It's an idiomatic redundancy to indicate lots of little people where a simple plural doesn't do the job. That's fascinating to me. I can't think right off of a similar construction in English that has this effect. PDF here: i.warosu.org/data/sci/img...
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ok now i feel cheated. i have eaten SO MANY blue-staining boletes in my life and not one of them made me see little men (maybe i should try undercooking them next time...
Lmao it really does basically literally translate to "tons of silly little guys"
I guess you could say something like "he's got MONEY money," but it doesn't really work with concrete nouns ("he's got ladders ladders").