Word-Built World: pipsqueak

Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit, 1934

Art: Norman Rockwell A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg

pipsqueak

PRONUNCIATION:

(PIP-skweek) 

MEANING:

noun: Something or someone small or insignificant.

ETYMOLOGY:

From pip (to peep or chirp), from peep + squeak, both of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1900.

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