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punyism

noun

Etymology

From puny + -ism.

  1. derived from *ǵenh₁-✻ — “to beget; to give birth; to produce”
  2. derived from nātus — “born”
  3. derived from *pós✻ — “afterwards”
  4. derived from posteā — “afterwards; hereafter; thereafter; next, then”
  5. derived from *postius✻ — “afterward”
  6. derived from pois — “after; since”
  7. derived from puisné — “born after (a specified person); younger, youngest; one who is born after (a specified person)”
  8. derived from puisné — “later, more recent; junior; weakly”
  9. suffixed as punyism — “puny + ism”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being puny

    The quality of being puny; puniness.

    • The punyism of a senseless word like Duke, or Count, or Earl, has ceased to please.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA