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Petty vs Chickenshit - What's the difference?

petty | chickenshit |

As adjectives the difference between petty and chickenshit

is that petty is little, small, secondary in rank or importance while chickenshit is (slang|vulgar) petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant.

As a noun chickenshit is

(slang|vulgar) petty and contemptible thing(s).

petty

English

(wikipedia petty)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
    • Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.'' (Milton, ''Samson Agonistes , 1671)
    petty officer'', ''petty cash
  • Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
    • a petty fault
  • Narrow-minded, small-minded.

    • Derived terms

    * petty cash * petty officer * petty king * pettiness * petty crime

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * quibble

    External links

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    chickenshit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chicken-shit, chicken shit

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, vulgar) Petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant.
  • (vulgar, slang) Cowardly.
    • How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang, vulgar) Petty and contemptible thing(s).
    • don't waste your time on that chickenshit
  • (slang, vulgar) A coward.
    • I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit .
  • (vulgar, military, slang) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
    • That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.

    Synonyms

    * (coward) coward; chicken, pussy, wuss, shithouse * (petty or contemptible thing) shit, crap, bullcrap, bullshit, junk, trash, dogshit, Irish bull, horseshit