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pissant
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As a noun, pissant means an insignificant person. As an adjective, it means insignificant or unimportant.
Meanings of pissant
5 meaningsnoun
pejorativeAn insignificant person.
pejorativeA person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
“Their manager is a real pissant about break times.”
pejorativeA person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.
Older and rare meanings (1)
datedoutside dialectsAn ant.
adjective
sometimes vulgarInsignificant or unimportant.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
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