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Definition of Small fry

1. Noun. Someone who is small and insignificant.

2. Noun. A young person of either sex. "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

Definition of Small fry

1. Noun. One or more small or immature fish. ¹

2. Noun. (context: informal) One or more children. ¹

3. Noun. (idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Small Fry

small clauses small cleaved cell small coal small computer system interface small copper small coppers small cranberry small d democrat small d democrats small deep petrosal nerve

small farmer small for gestational age small fortune small forward small forwards small fry (current term) small gross small heath small heaths small hours

small icosihemidodecahedron small increment sensitivity index small increment sensitivity index test small indefinite amount small indefinite quantity small interarch distance small intestine small intestines small l liberal

Literary usage of Small fry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus (1875)
"All other birds and fishes, ment ; and a large double-handled landing-net was employed for shoals of small fry. It is also probable that when the inundation ..."

2. Personal Experiences of a Cub Reporter by Cornelius Vanderbilt (1922)
"CHAPTER XI small fry IN all large newspaper organizations there are certain men trained in particular branches of work, just as there were men trained for ..."

3. The Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine by American Anti-Slavery Society (1836)
"As some of our readers, who have never travelled beyond the Potomac, may have no idea of the unfortunate plight to which the small-fry slaveholders are ..."

4. Notes on Fish and Fishing by John Jackson Manley (1877)
"De minimis non curat Lex "—" The Law regards not minims"—is an old adage, but one which I must disregard for the nonce in continuing my notes on " small fry ..."

5. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1877)
"small fry are taken at the end of the rains in baskets placed in fields at the outlets for irrigation water ; in the cold weather small fry are caught in ..."

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