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piss-ant

piss-ant is the alternative spelling 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 piss-ant

pluralpiss-ants

Questions about piss-ant

What is piss-ant the alternative spelling of?
Piss-ant is the alternative spelling of pissant.

Words near piss-ant in the dictionary

  1. piss up a wall
  2. piss ups
  3. piss water
  4. piss weak
  5. piss-all
  6. piss-ant
  7. piss-ants
  8. piss-artist
  9. piss-artists
  10. piss-easy
  11. piss-elegance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piss-ant (page history and authors); pissant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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