bantams

as inmidget
as indwarf

Synonyms for bantams

noun small person

Antonyms for bantams

giant

Word Origin & History

1749, after Bantam, former Dutch residency in Java, from which the small domestic fowl were said to have been first imported. Extension to "small person" is 1837. As a light weight class in boxing, it is attested from 1884, probably from the birds, which are small but aggressive and bred for fighting.

Example Sentences for bantams

The largest are the tall Cochin Chinas; the smallest the pert little Bantams.

In vain these bantams stormed and raved, and entreated and blubbered.

The rabbits are Ned's, and the bantams outside are Stuffy's.

I am certain they are going to take you to see the bantams, now aren't they?

I must certainly go with you to see the bantams after breakfast.

They were the Bantams who told me of the Anglican padre at Longueval.

I only got my bantams at Easter, and these are their first eggs.

He has not yet outgrown his guinea-pigs, and his bantams, his squirrels, and his litter of puppies.

She gave me an account of the number of my pheasants and bantams; and I said, they should be my own care twice or thrice a day.

No self-respectin' gent would bring up 'is bantams in that line nowadays.