pissant

Definition

An ant.

Etymology

From piss + ant, because of the urine-like smell of anthills. Compare pismire.

Example Sentences

• "It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from."
• "“Everyone is saying, ‘You can’t be serious about targeting Iran. Look at Iraq,’” the former intelligence official told me. “But they say, ‘We’ve got some lessons learned—not militarily, but how we did it politically. We’re not going to rely on agency pissants.’ No loose ends, and that’s why the C.I.A. is out of there.”"
• "Their manager is a real pissant about break times."