pissant
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈpɪsænt/
- Offensive
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- You're not dealing with some pissant public utility company.
- a little pissant
- just a pissant
Examples
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Why he even thinks our great governor is a pissant.
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I don't blame him for not wanting to be in the same room with a pissant who writes such idiotic underhanded drivel about him.
Blog text (16) -
In that little pissant car of yours?
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm standing up for you, pissant.
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Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a pissant like you.
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Even if I think the guy's a pissant and he's not good enough for my little girl.
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You little pissant.
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You're a pissant.
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Certainly, even on three legs, the grizzly could outrun two boys and their pissant feist dogs.
Fiction book (1997) -
I can't believe that pissant keeps interrupting our meeting with his nonsense.
Synonyms
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9.1
A silly annoying person that others do not respect
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7.7
A small person, often a child, seen as unimportant
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7.2
A person who is mean or dishonest
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9.9
A person who behaves in a silly or annoying way
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9.9
A rude word for a person people strongly dislike
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9.9
A person who is annoying and easy to dislike
A person who is annoying, rude, and not liked by others
A rude, stupid person who annoys others
Antonyms
How Annoying
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pissant used for a person comes from the same image of a tiny, smelly ant, from piss ('to pee') and ant ('a small insect'). So if someone is called a pissant, it means they are seen as insignificant, annoying, and not worthy of respect.