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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: puny

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# Of [[inferior]] [[size]], [[strength]] or [[significance]].

  

# Of [[inferior]] [[size]], [[strength]] or [[significance]].
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#* Shakespeare
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#*: A '''puny''' subject strikes at thy great glory.
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#* Keble
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#*: Breezes laugh to scorn our '''puny''' speed.
   
 

====Synonyms====

  

====Synonyms====

Latest revision as of 01:45, 31 March 2013

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Variant form of puisne.

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[edit] Noun

puny (plural punies)

  1. (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
  2. (obsolete) A younger person.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
      a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies, but obedience [...].
  3. (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
  4. (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.

[edit] Adjective

puny (comparative punier, superlative puniest)

  1. Of inferior size, strength or significance.
    • Shakespeare
      A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
    • Keble
      Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

[edit] Synonyms

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[edit] See also

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin pugnus.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

puny m (plural punys)

  1. fist
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