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Puny vs Dinky - What's the difference?

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Puny is a related term of dinky.


As adjectives the difference between puny and dinky

is that puny is of inferior size, strength or significance while dinky is (informal|british) tiny and cute; small and attractive.

As a noun puny

is (obsolete) a new pupil at a school etc; a junior student.

As an acronym dinky is

double income, no kids yet said of a relationship.

puny

English

Noun

(punies)
  • (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
  • (obsolete) A younger person.
  • *, II.12:
    • a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
  • (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
    • (Fuller)
  • (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • Of inferior size, strength or significance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
  • * Keble
    • Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

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    See also

    * punny – relating to a pun ----

    dinky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal, British) Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
  • * 1915 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island ,
    • How do you like my hat? That one you had on in church yesterday was real dinky .
  • * 2010 , Sharon Wallace, A House Full of Whispers , page 5
    • I played in the dirt with a small dinky car as the garage held no fascination for a little girl of five.
  • (informal, US) Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.
    • They stayed in a dinky hotel room, but they had a great trip.

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    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • Double income, no kids yet. Said of a relationship.

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