No it is a slang term for an actual type of ant that is very small, some people also call them sugar ants.

You're thinking of a pissed ant. :)

Pissant is someone that is a low life in my book.

Heyyy! It's not pissant, it's pissànt...It's french : D

I don't know but it is a word to describe a stupid and annoying person.

Only in England :)

no, just a wet one

Um...no

Pissant is southern for fire ant

I shall attempt to clear up or furthur muddle all this confusion. I went to an authoritative source, my uncles are experts on ants, some of them are experts on getting pissed off, and ALL of them are experts on getting pissed. Pissant comes from an old word for certain small ants 'Pissmires" or sometimes 'pissmyres' dating back to 1300's. There is a Dutch word 'mierseycke' ( seycke is "urine") The mire,myre, or mier pro'lly comes from old Norse 'maurr'= 'ant' ('magine that) related to Greek 'myrmex'= 'ant.' The piss part might come from the smell, not the individual , but the entire ant hill. Ureic acid in urine ( or piss) smells similar to the formic acid in ant venom. (Formica is Latin for 'ant.' Even the Romans were plagued by piss ants crawling on their kitchen counters. Laminate plastic counter tops are made using ureic acids and formaldehyde [see the 'form'?] I don't think Urine brand counters would find a market.) Chaucer has this to say 'bout pissmyres; "He is as angry as a pissemyre, Though þat he haue al that he kan desire." Judging by the spelling Jeff was pissed when he wrote it. “Pissant” itself dates from the 1600's. Pismire was more specific; pissant usually means any small ant, also called sugar, pavement, kitchen, pantry, table, counter, etc. ants. (I cannot find a listing for Formica ants. Tho I found many for the Rio Grande River.) Especially small ants that forage in long lines. As to fire ants, while small and traveling in lines, any one in fire ant territory knows the diff twixt fire ant and a pissant , specially when the fire ant is pissed . Easiest way to tell them apart is let one bite you. Easiest but not the most comfortable. A new small ant has appeared on our counters here. It is not a pissant, it does not forage in lines, instead they just roam crazily all over the Formica. In fact they are officially called 'crazy ants,' specifically Raspberry Crazy Ants, smash 'um, they smell like raspberries, way better than smelling like urine. Pismire applied to people dates back to 1600, as does pissant applied to ants, but the earliest citation for pissant applied to people is 1900. For 300 years people knew what he was but didn't know what to call him. Some here have said a pissant is a 'low life,' or 'stupid and annoying,' Paw43 added the important 'insignificant .' In fact 'roun' here, 'pissant' is generally preceded by 'no account,' calling summon a 'no count pissant' is a good way to start a fight, be keerful, the pissant mite turn out to be a fireant, or one of them biggo red ants. Pissed off US "angry, fed up" from 1946, Piss off British "go away" from 1958. Ant from German/Early English 'aimait' and similar, meaning 'the biter.' "As þycke as ameten crepeþ in an amete hulle" [Robert of Gloucester, 1297] ( Bob and Jeff used to get pissed together.) I dunno when the Brits first started getting drunk. I only know two stories 'bout pissants; One day a ant fell from the ceiling onto a toilet. He couldn't find a way off and kept runnin' round and round the rim, getting more and more aggravated. Then some one came in and the ant really got pissed off. Another day a priest was walkin down the road when he came across a small boy smashin pissants with a rock. Father sez: My son, why are you doing that? Don't you know that everything in God's creation has a purpose? Young lad: 'Cept for three things, Padre. Fodder: And what might they be? Young lad: Tits on a nun, balls on a priest, and these gawdammed pissants. I dunno any piss or ant stories in the Queen's English. Mebbee someone with a basement workshop could construct one involving a pint of black and tan. The only French stories I know come from a yellow back book called “ His French Aunt.” If I told any of those I'd get banned from the bag.