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Grammar : Adj
Spell : pyoo-nee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpyu ni

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Définition of puny

Origin :
  • 1570s, "inferior in rank" (1540s as a noun, "junior pupil, freshman"), from Middle French puisné (Modern French puîné), from Old French puisne "born later, younger, youngest" (12c., contrasted with aisné "first-born"), from puis nez, from puis "afterward" (from Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea "after this, hereafter," from post "after," see post-, + ea "there") + Old French "born," from Latin natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Sense of "small, weak, insignificant" first recorded 1590s. Cf. puisne. Related: Puniness.
  • adj small, insignificant
Example sentences :
  • I am ashamed to kill such a puny little dwarf as you seem to be.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Pardon me for inserting these puny details in what I have to say.
  • Extract from : « The Old Game » by Samuel G. Blythe
  • Even we puny creatures can divine something of their birth and death.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • Beauchene asked her as he looked at the pale, puny child on her arm.
  • Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
  • What could man's law—his proud but puny morality—do to injure her?
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
  • And he shook his puny fist at the blue vault of heaven—Ajax defying Jupiter.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • His friends thought he was puny, and they always told him so.
  • Extract from : « FreeChildrenStories.com Collection » by Daniel Errico
  • It was too puny a contest for him, and he reposed upon the consciousness of his own integrity.
  • Extract from : « Patrick Henry » by Moses Coit Tyler
  • How puny were the efforts of the five thousand air cruisers!
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various
  • Lave the still water and the shallows to the weak and the puny.
  • Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever

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