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pisant

pisant is the obsolete form of pissant.

Meaning of pissant

Noun

pissant (plural pissants)

  1. (dated outside dialects) An ant.
  2. (derogatory, slang) An insignificant person.
    • It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from.1993, PJ O'Rourke, “Democracy in its diapers”, in Give War a Chance, Picador
    Synonyms:
    nobody
  3. (derogatory, slang) A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
    • Their manager is a real pissant about break times.
  4. (derogatory, slang) A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.

See all 5 meanings of pissant

Forms of pisant

pluralpisants

Questions about pisant

What is pisant the obsolete form of?
Pisant is the obsolete form of pissant.

Words near pisant in the dictionary

  1. pisanka
  2. pisankas
  3. pisanki
  4. Pisano period
  5. pisans
  6. pisant
  7. pisants
  8. Pisapia
  9. Pisar
  10. Pisarovina
  11. Pisarski

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