Meaning of Puny | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inferior person; a subordinate; also, an insignificant person.
   archaic
2. A younger person; a junior.
   obsolete
3. Alternative spelling of puisne.
   obsolete
4. A person who is not experienced; a beginner, a novice.
   obsolete
5. A puisne or junior judge.
   obsolete
6. A new student at a school, university, the Inns of Court, etc.; a junior.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]hou chuff, thou puny, thou got in the peasestraw thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, […]”

“[A] law that the eldeſt or firſt-borne child ſhall ſucceede and inherite all: where nothing is reſerved for punies, but obedience: […] Theſe vaine ſhadowes of our religion, which are ſeene in ſome of theſe examples, witnes the dignitie and divinity thereof.”

“For a worthy man is wounded more deeply by his own Generalls neglect, then by his enemies ſword: […] Who had rather others ſhould make a ladder of his dead corps to ſcale a city by it, then a bridge of him whileſt alive for his punies to give him the Goe-by, and paſſe over him to preferment.”

“Nay then I ſee thou'rt but a puny in the ſubtill Miſtery of a woman: […]”

“[T]he whole companye or most parte of the Studentꝭ [Studentis] of the same house mette toogether to beginne their Christmas, of wᶜʰ som̃e came to see sports […] others to make sporte wᵗʰall of this last sorte were they whome they call Fresh-menn Punies of the first yeare, who are by no meanes admitted to be agent's or behoulders of those sports, before themselues haue biñe patient perfourmers of them.”

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