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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Small children.
- noun Young or small fish.
- noun People or things regarded as unimportant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One or more small or
immature fish . - noun informal One or more
children . - noun idiomatic One or more persons or things of relatively little
consequence ,importance , orvalue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who is small and insignificant
- noun a young person of either sex
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