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Definition of pipsqueak in English: pipsqueaknoun ˈpɪpskwiːkˈpɪpˌskwik informal A person considered to be insignificant, especially because they are small or young. I was damned if a nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with spots was going to make me feel loathsome Example sentencesExamples - I can handle him and anything the little pipsqueak tries to dish out.
- Think of America not as the playground bully but as the well-muscled mild-mannered good kid who finally hauls off and whacks the loudmouth pipsqueak who won't stop bugging him.
- Yet for all this muscle-flexing, Patni remains a relative pipsqueak.
- Why would you waste and/or risk your time engaging with a pipsqueak who might have a point?
- There are some sauces that make the Enormous Omelet, calorie-wise, look like a pipsqueak.
- You're not going to take that from a little pipsqueak are you?
- But none of this keeps the $9 billion giant from popping-off like a pipsqueak, as it's been doing in a recent ad campaign tied-in to the Olympics.
- As far as cosmopolitan cities go, it makes Toronto look like a pipsqueak.
- He struck me as a moral pipsqueak who didn't even think what he had launched would be as horrific as it was.
- Least understandable, though, is the Mercury music prize, with its piffling purse and its pompous panel of five pipsqueaks.
- I'm about average height now, I like to think, but I was a pipsqueak as a kid.
- Funny how a pipsqueak like him could inspire such fear.
- He might be a pipsqueak, but still, having a nine year old put his full wait on me isn't fun.
- And to Washington, Iran is a pipsqueak with a goliath complex and a nuclear game plan.
- Some articles included Amis's response to the review: ‘I think he's even more of a talentless pipsqueak than I did before.’
- What I say is that what goes for the ‘titans of the media’ also goes for the pipsqueaks of the media.
- It's a media business, all right, though still a pipsqueak.
- So, it was that my pipsqueak of a brother was named Aseem by my parents and I was just plain, old-fashioned Seema.
- An absolute star, he glittered on stage while the party's pipsqueaks huddled around trying to catch some rays of reflected glory.
- Granted, dominating a bunch of relative pipsqueaks does not qualify one for NBA readiness.
Synonyms insignificant person, nobody, nonentity, non-person, gnat, insect, cipher, pygmy upstart informal squirt, stripling British informal nerk, johnny, squit, whippersnapper Scottish informal nyaff North American informal bozo, picayune, pisher, snip dated puppy, pup archaic, informal dandiprat
Origin Early 20th century: symbolic and imitative. Definition of pipsqueak in US English: pipsqueaknounˈpipˌskwēkˈpɪpˌskwik informal A person considered to be insignificant, especially because they are small or young. I was damned if a nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with spots was going to make me feel loathsome Example sentencesExamples - But none of this keeps the $9 billion giant from popping-off like a pipsqueak, as it's been doing in a recent ad campaign tied-in to the Olympics.
- So, it was that my pipsqueak of a brother was named Aseem by my parents and I was just plain, old-fashioned Seema.
- There are some sauces that make the Enormous Omelet, calorie-wise, look like a pipsqueak.
- It's a media business, all right, though still a pipsqueak.
- Funny how a pipsqueak like him could inspire such fear.
- Yet for all this muscle-flexing, Patni remains a relative pipsqueak.
- An absolute star, he glittered on stage while the party's pipsqueaks huddled around trying to catch some rays of reflected glory.
- Why would you waste and/or risk your time engaging with a pipsqueak who might have a point?
- As far as cosmopolitan cities go, it makes Toronto look like a pipsqueak.
- He struck me as a moral pipsqueak who didn't even think what he had launched would be as horrific as it was.
- And to Washington, Iran is a pipsqueak with a goliath complex and a nuclear game plan.
- He might be a pipsqueak, but still, having a nine year old put his full wait on me isn't fun.
- Granted, dominating a bunch of relative pipsqueaks does not qualify one for NBA readiness.
- You're not going to take that from a little pipsqueak are you?
- Think of America not as the playground bully but as the well-muscled mild-mannered good kid who finally hauls off and whacks the loudmouth pipsqueak who won't stop bugging him.
- I can handle him and anything the little pipsqueak tries to dish out.
- Some articles included Amis's response to the review: ‘I think he's even more of a talentless pipsqueak than I did before.’
- Least understandable, though, is the Mercury music prize, with its piffling purse and its pompous panel of five pipsqueaks.
- I'm about average height now, I like to think, but I was a pipsqueak as a kid.
- What I say is that what goes for the ‘titans of the media’ also goes for the pipsqueaks of the media.
Synonyms insignificant person, nobody, nonentity, non-person, gnat, insect, cipher, pygmy
Origin Early 20th century: symbolic and imitative. |