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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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inconsiderable
English
Etymology
in- +? considerable
Adjective
inconsiderable (comparative more inconsiderable, superlative most inconsiderable)
- Too trivial or unimportant to be worthy of attention.
Translations
Synonyms
- negligible
- unconsiderable
- See also Thesaurus:insignificant
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