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puny
English
Etymology
From Middle French puisné. See puisne.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pju?ni/
- Rhymes: -u?ni
Adjective
puny (comparative punier, superlative puniest)
- Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:scrawny
Translations
Noun
puny (plural punies)
- (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
- (obsolete) A younger person.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- who had rather others should make a ladder of his dead corpse to scale a city by it, than a bridge of him whilst alive for his punies to give him the go-by
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
- (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Synonyms
- (new pupil): fresher, freshman, new bug, novi (Tonbridge School), shadow (Westminster School)
- (beginner): newb, rookie, tenderfoot; see also Thesaurus:beginner
- (subordinate): junior, underling, vassal
See also
- punny – relating to a pun
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Latin pugnus, from Proto-Indo-European *pu?nos, *pu?nos, from *pew?-, *peu?- (“prick, punch”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?pu?/
Noun
puny m (plural punys)
- fist
Related terms
- punyal
- punyeta
Further reading
- “puny” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “puny” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “puny” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “puny” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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exiguous
English
Etymology
From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z??ju.?s/, /???z??ju.?s/
Adjective
exiguous (comparative more exiguous, superlative most exiguous)
- scanty; meager
- 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box ch XIII
- The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.
- 1912 — G. K. Chesterton, Manalive ch VII
- The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.
- 1998 — Michael Ignatieff, Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia. New Statesman, Feb 6.
- They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.
- 2012 — Rodger Cohen, Scottexalonia Rising, New York Times, Nov. 26., Op. Ed.
- National politics, as President François Hollande of France is only the latest to discover, is often no more than tweaking at the margins in the exiguous political space left by markets and other global forces.
- 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box ch XIII
Derived terms
- exiguate
- exiguity
- exiguously
- exiguousness
- unexiguous
Related terms
- exigency
Translations
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