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pint-size

[ pahynt-sahyz ]

adjective

, Informal.
  1. a variant of pint-sized ( def ).


pint-size

adjective

  1. informal.
    very small; tiny


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pint-size1

First recorded in 1935–40

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Example Sentences

The pint-size prez gave the pep talk of the year, encouraging people everywhere to take risks and make the world a better place.

Mickey Cohen is a pint-size Mob boss with friends like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Billy Graham.

And as a result, US Four Seasons hotels routinely hand out Ty toys to their pint-size guests—Marvelous Malia is presumably next.

We canned it in tin, using size Number Two, which is the same as pint size in glass jars.

"Half-pint size," said Cyrus Thurston, and laughed in derision.

That man Willowby is only half pint size, but his blue eyes look cold to me, and I bet he plays a stiff game of bridge.

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