piker
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈpaɪkər/
- Offensive
:
mezquino
- And he's so damn rich he makes the Fortune 500 look like pikers.
- look like a piker
Examples
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Bill Maher is a piker compared to real comedians.
Blog text (29) -
He's just a worthless piker.
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What a bunch of pikers!
Blog text (6) -
Benedict Arnold will prove a piker in comparison.
Blog text (9) -
Benedict Arnold was a piker.
Blog text (9) -
You're just a piker.
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I've seen some lunatics in my time, but they were all pikers compared with Dreyfus.
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The people who panic over Iran and North Korea today should bear in mind that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il are pikers compared with Stalin and Mao.
Academic text (2007) -
You're just a piker who never takes any risks in life.
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In a competition filled with ambitious players, he stood out as a mere piker.
Synonyms
9
7.5
A person who is small or weak and not taken seriously, often in a teasing way
1
9.9
A person who argues over small unimportant details and uses unfair tricks
How Petty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Piker can also be used as an insult for a petty or unimportant person. A helpful way to remember this is to think of the same root pike suggesting 'small', so calling someone a piker is like calling them 'small-minded' or not worth taking seriously.