Definitions For Pissant
Adjective
Insignificant or unimportant.Noun
PISSANT (plural PISSANTs) (dated, outside, dialects) An ant. (pejorative) An insignificant person. (pejorative) A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances. : Their manager is a real pissant about break times. (pejorative) A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.Quotations
2005 January 31, The New Yorker, 24: : “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.” 1993, PJ O'Rourke, Democracy in its diapers in Give war a chance (Picador): : It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from.Etymology
from piss + ant, because of the urine-like smell of anthills. compare {{m + en + pismire}}.Anagrams
ptisans, spastinIs Pissant a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
11
The word Pissant is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends