What is the origin of "piss-ant" what does it mean?
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I have no idea how the word was started, It is slang word. piss-ant means not important. It probably started at a place like a factory, a boss calling his employee a piss-ant.
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"The word can also refer to an inconsequential, irrelevant, or worthless person, especially one who is irritating or contemptible out of proportion to his significance. Its origin is with pismire, a 14th-century word for ant." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissant
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1. Slang: Vulgar. a person or thing of no value or consequence; a despicable person or thing. 2. Obsolete. an ant. –adjective 3. Slang: Vulgar. insignificant or worthless. [Modeled on pismire.] http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=piss-ant&r=66 An insolent or insignificant person; a peon; a nobody. A little person with a big attitude. Any person who is incapable of consuming as much alcohol as you can. Generally someone who has arrogantly been boasting about how much alcohol they can consume but then falls far short of the trumped up expectations. Slang term for a red ant - the kind that bite. A very emoish psychotic girl who is obsessed. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=piss+ant Piss Ant- (Navy Slang) Yard Worker. http://www.maritimequest.com/misc_pages/slang_terms/slang_p.htm (descriptive) a sheepish person. Non-desript individual. Young punk. http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/English.3.html
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