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Noun: small fry  smol frI
Usage: informal
  1. Someone who is small and insignificant
    - pipsqueak [informal], squirt [Brit, informal]
     
  2. A young person of either sex
    - child, kid [informal], youngster, minor, shaver [informal], nipper [informal], tiddler [Brit, informal], tike [informal], tyke [informal], fry [archaic], nestling [informal], wean [UK, Ireland, dialect], kiddy [informal], kiddie [informal]
     
  3. Something of small importance
    - triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer [informal], picayune [N. Amer, informal], piddler [informal]

Derived forms: small fries

Type of: article, cipher, cypher, juvenile, juvenile person, nobody, nonentity, object, physical object

Encyclopedia: Small fry