Small Fry

Definition: Small Fry

Small Fry

Noun

1. Someone who is small and insignificant.

2. A young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Small Fry

Commonalty

Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.

Littleness

Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.

Unimportance

Minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Small Fry (1956)

Small Fry Club (1947)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Buck Wilder's Small Fry Fishing Guide: A Complete Introduction to the World of Fishing for Small Fry of All Ages (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Congratulates Reserve Officer Candidates Richard Dufallo, Band Leader of the ROC Band, and John Halloran, Drum Major, at ceremonies at Naval Air Station, Los Alamitos, California, in which "USS Small Fry", the World's only curved deck "aircraft carrier" was placed in commission for the use of model airplane enthusiasts, circa 1951-52. The ROC Band played the honors on this occasion, at the Shrine Charity Benefit at the Los Angeles Coliseum, and at numerous other events during their summer training session. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Bulgarian 

дребна риба (peanut, sprat). (various references)

Czech

malé zvíře. (various references)

German

kleiner fisch. (various references)

Greek 

πιτσιρίκι (kid). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"�'י רקק (common folk, small fish). (various references)

Hungarian

kisemberek (great and small, small people), gyerekek (children, chillun, kids, little ones), apróságok (odds and ends, trivia). (various references)

Italian

pesce piccolo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� 輩 (unimportant people), 雑魚 (small fish), 雑兵 (ordinary soldiers, rank and file). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞうひょう (ordinary soldiers, rank and file), ざ�" (small fish), そはい (unimportant people), じゃ�" (small fish). (various references)

Manx

reddyn beggey, myn-gheiney. (various references)

Pig Latin

allsmay yfray

Romanian

oameni fãrã importanţã, copii (children, issue). (various references)

Russian 

мелюзга, мелкота, мелкая сошка (pipsqueak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sitna boranija. (various references)

Swedish

småungar, småglin, obetydligt folk, obetydliga människor (small beer). (various references)

Thai

คนหรือสิ่งที่ไม่น่าสนใจ. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cá nhỏ, cá con bọn trẻ con, bọ trẻ ranh lũ người tầm thường nhỏ mọn những vật tầm thường nhỏ mọn. (various references)

Welsh

silidons (unimportant person). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: amyls, aryls, falls, farls, farms, flams, flamy, flays, frays, malls, marls, marly, rally, sally, small.

-4 letters: alls, ally, alms, amyl, arfs, arms, army, aryl, fall, farl, farm, fays, flam, flay, fray, lams, lars, lays, mall, marl, mars, mays, rams, rays, ryas, sall, slam, slay, yams.

-5 letters: all, als, arf, arm, ars, ays, far.

+3 letters: masterfully.

+5 letters: scalariformly.