Puny vs Pygmy - What's the difference?
puny | pygmy |
(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
(obsolete) A younger person.
*, II.12:
(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
(often capitalized, usually in the plural: Pygmies ) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature
(Greek mythology) A member of a race of dwarfs
(figuratively) Any dwarfish person
(figuratively) An insignificant person, at least in some respect
Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people
Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind
As nouns the difference between puny and pygmy
is that puny is a new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student while pygmy is (often capitalized, usually in the plural: Pygmies) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature.As adjectives the difference between puny and pygmy
is that puny is of inferior size, strength or significance while pygmy is relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.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.
- (Fuller)
Adjective
(er)- A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* punny – relating to a pun ----pygmy
English
(Pygmies)Alternative forms
* pigmyNoun
(pygmies)- The Bantu immigration drove many Pygmy''' tribes into the darkest jungle, while other ' Pygmies were reduced to cohabitation in a subservient status
- ''Homer and Herodote mentioned Pygmies in India (which would fit the Andamanese Negritoes) or Ethiopia (then meaning all Subsaharan Africa)
- ''Everyone looked like Pygmies whenever giant Joe joined his classmates
- ''Despite his towering stature, the minister proved a political pygmy
Synonyms
* dwarf * midgetAntonyms
* giantDerived terms
* pygmyish * pygmyism * pygmy hippopotamus * pygmy sperm whaleAdjective
(en adjective)- ''Soil exhaustion ultimately produces a pygmy crop at best