half-pint

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half-pint

Any small, weak, and/or insignificant person. Alludes to a pint, a unit of liquid measurement. Don't go picking a fight with me, half-pint, or I'll knock you into next Tuesday! That new half-pint they hired as a CEO is totally incompetent.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tehila	-	Hebrew
Williams	['wijəmz]
Mirembe	-	Eastern African, Ganda
Maribel	-	Spanish
Angie	AN-jee	English
Philemon	fi-LEE-mən (English), fie-LEE-mən (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek