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small fry

small fry
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [smawl frahy]
    • /smɔl fraɪ/
    • /smɔːl fraɪ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [smawl frahy]
    • /smɔl fraɪ/

Definitions of small fry words

  • interjection small fry child 1
  • noun small fry sb, sth unimportant 1
  • uncountable noun small fry Small fry is used to refer to someone or something that is considered to be unimportant. 0
  • noun plural small fry people or things regarded as unimportant 0
  • noun plural small fry young children 0
  • noun plural small fry young or small fishes 0
See all 8 definitions of small fry

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Origin of small fry

First appearance:

before 1895
One of the 18% newest English words
First recorded in 1895-1900

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Small fry

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Small fry

small fry popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 44% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 54% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

Synonyms for small fry

noun small fry

  • boy — A boy is a child who will grow up to be a man.
  • child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
  • dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
  • gamin — a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
  • half pint — half of a pint, equal to 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) or 16 tablespoons (0.2 liter).

adj small fry

  • dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
  • miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.

adjective small fry

  • accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
  • backup — Backup consists of extra equipment, resources, or people that you can get help or support from if necessary.
  • dwarfed — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
  • mite — a contribution that is small but is all that a person can afford.
  • mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
All 27 Synonyms of small fry

Antonyms for small fry

adjective small fry

  • giving — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • greater — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
All 2 Antonyms of small fry

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