pissant
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pissant
- /ˈpɪsænt/
Where it comes from
From piss + ant, because of the urine-like smell of anthills. Compare pismire.
noun pissants · piss-ant
- An ant.
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An insignificant person.
It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from.
Similar: nobody
- A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances. Their manager is a real pissant about break times.
- A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.
adjective more pissant · most pissant · piss-ant
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Insignificant or unimportant.
This is our chance to make a name for ourselves; to show that we're not just some piss-ant white-bread mountain town.
Similar: base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable
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