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adj. Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak: a puny physique; puny excuses.

adj. Chiefly Southern U.S. Sickly; ill.

n. A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.

n. A younger person.

n. A beginner, a novice.

n. An inferior person; a subordinate.

adj. Of inferior size, strength or significance.

adj. Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.

n. A youth; a novice.

Later-born; younger; junior. See puisne, 1.

Small and weak; inferior or imperfectly developed in size or strength; feeble; petty; insignificant.

Synonyms Little, diminutive, stunted, starveling.

n. A young, inexperienced person; a junior; a novice.

n. A bedbug: same as punice.

adj. inferior in strength or significance

adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size

"I'll have to shoot a deer at Thanksgiving with my 338 from stem to stern to see if I can get the bullet back, and show you guys that the big X bullets are expanding, even in puny deer."

weak    little    small   

to    relating    pun    punny    a   

punier    puniest   

inferior    petty    youth    novice    small    scrawny   

Clooney    Cluny    Looney    Mooney    Moonie    Rooney    Sunni    cuny    looney    loony   

feeble    frail    insignificant    pitiful    diminutive    deform    contemptible    skinny    impotent    sickly