Puniest vs Punies - What's the difference?
puniest | punies |
(puny)
(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
(obsolete) A younger person.
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(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
(US, dialect, Appalachia) Sickness, weakness.
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* {{quote-book, title=How I became a human being: a disabled man's quest for independence, page=152, author=
Mark O'Brien, coauthors=Gillian Kendall, year=2003, passage=Other days, when I tried to get up despite feeling weak, she would inform me that I had a case of "the punies " and ought to stay in the tank.}}
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As an adjective puniest
is superlative of puny.As a noun punies is
sickness, weakness.puniest
English
Adjective
(head)puny
English
Noun
(punies)- a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
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Adjective
(er)- A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.
