half-pint
- noun
- /ˈhæfˌpaɪnt/
- Offensive
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- The teacher smiled at the half-pint who was too shy to speak up.
Examples
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As the youngest in the group, he often felt like a half-pint among the older kids.
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That takes care of the half-pint.
Fiction book (1994) -
He really made me feel like something... a half-pint like me.
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Don't worry about him; he's just a half-pint trying to act tough.
Synonyms
47
6.4
The smallest or weakest one in a group, often an animal in a litter
33
7.7
A small person, often a child, seen as unimportant
23
8.4
A small person whom others insult for seeming weak or unimportant
9
8.5
A very small person or thing people often call jokingly
5
1.8
A person who is shorter than most people and has a light build
3
9.9
A small mean person that others dislike
1
9.9
A very small person, often a child
1
9.9
A rude word for someone who is shorter than other people
1
7.4
Young children who are not yet adults
1
8.9
A friendly name for a young or small person
1
9.9
A small person, often a child who is not fully grown
A very small weak person used as an insult
A very small person like the tiny people in Gulliver's Travels
A small, chubby person people tease
Antonyms
How Small
- Offensive
47
6.4
- Offensive
5
1.8
- Informal
1
5.2
∞
1.0
73
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Half-pint comes from a name for a small drink: half 'one of two equal parts' of a pint 'a common drink measure'. People began to call a small or short person a half-pint as if they were only 'half a pint' in size, so it is a mild, often rude, way to say someone is small.