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Half-pint   /hæf-paɪnt/   Listen
Half-pint

noun
1.
Disparaging terms for small people.  Synonyms: peewee, runt, shrimp.






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"Half-pint" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Half-pint size," said Cyrus Thurston, and laughed in derision. There was something ludicrous in the futility of the attack. He stuck his head from a window into the gale they created. He sheltered his eyes to try to follow the ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various

... shooting out the other leg, uttered wild and exulting cries, jumped up to whirl on one foot, snapping his fingers above his head—and a strange carter who was having a drink in there began to swear, and cleared out with his half-pint in his hand into the bar. But when suddenly he sprang upon a table and continued to dance among the glasses, the landlord interfered. He didn't want any 'acrobat tricks in the taproom.' They laid their hands on him. Having had a glass or two, Mr. Swaffer's foreigner ...
— Amy Foster • Joseph Conrad

... pitcher from the man's hand; before, however, raising it to her lips, she looked at the children. True mother's heart, thought I to myself, and taking the half-pint mug, I made her fill it, and then held it to the children, causing each to take a draught. The woman wiped her eyes with the corner of her gown before she raised the pitcher and drank to ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow



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