"small fry" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-small fry.ogg [Australia] Forms: small fry [plural], small fries [plural]
Etymology: small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee. Etymology templates: {{com|en|small|fry}} small + fry Head templates: {{en-noun|small fry|+}} small fry (plural small fry or small fries)
  1. One or more small or immature fish. Categories (lifeform): Fish Translations (one or more small fish): ἀφύη (aphúē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), pikkukala (Finnish), 雑魚 (zako) (Japanese), ри́пче (rípče) [neuter] (Macedonian), menuse (Middle English), малёк (maljók) [masculine] (Russian), мелюзга́ (meljuzgá) [feminine] (Russian), ме́лкая рыбёшка (mélkaja rybjóška) [feminine] (Russian), ры́бка (rýbka) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-small_fry-en-noun-t26V7f90 Disambiguation of Fish: 74 18 8 Disambiguation of 'one or more small fish': 61 18 21
  2. (informal) One or more children. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Children, People Categories (lifeform): Baby animals Translations (one or more children): pikkuväki (Finnish), детвора́ (detvorá) (note: grammatically singular) [collective, feminine] (Russian), мелюзга́ (meljuzgá) (english: jocularly or pejoratively) [feminine] (Russian), ме́лочь (méločʹ) (alt: jocularly, also: "ме́лочь пуза́тая") [feminine] (Russian), ребяти́шки (rebjatíški) [plural] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-small_fry-en-noun-Be8eXwHa Disambiguation of Children: 8 80 12 Disambiguation of People: 16 47 37 Disambiguation of Baby animals: 20 57 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 44 32 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 47 29 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 20 47 33 Disambiguation of 'one or more children': 8 85 7
  3. (idiomatic) One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: small potatoes, minnow, nobody, no one Translations (things or people of little importance): klein bier [neuter] (Dutch), nulo (Esperanto), æti (Faroese), pikkutekijä [person] (Finnish), pikkujuttu (english: thing) (Finnish), menu fretin [masculine] (French), kleine Fische [masculine, plural] (German), 雑魚 (zako) (Japanese), си́тна ри́ба (sítna ríba) [feminine] (Macedonian), błahostka [feminine] (Polish), blotka [feminine] (Polish), ме́лочь (méločʹ) [feminine] (Russian), ме́лкая со́шка (mélkaja sóška) (english: a person) [feminine] (Russian), ме́лкая рыбёшка (mélkaja rybjóška) (english: a person) [feminine] (Russian), Don Nadie (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-small_fry-en-noun-UArpt5vC Disambiguation of 'things or people of little importance': 2 3 95

Inflected forms

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      "alt": "jocularly, also: \"ме́лочь пуза́тая\"",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "méločʹ",
      "sense": "one or more children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ме́лочь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rebjatíški",
      "sense": "one or more children",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "ребяти́шки"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "klein bier"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "word": "nulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "word": "æti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "pikkutekijä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "thing",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "word": "pikkujuttu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "menu fretin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "kleine Fische"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zako",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "word": "雑魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sítna ríba",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "си́тна ри́ба"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "błahostka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blotka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "méločʹ",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ме́лочь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "a person",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mélkaja sóška",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ме́лкая со́шка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "a person",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mélkaja rybjóška",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ме́лкая рыбёшка"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "things or people of little importance",
      "word": "Don Nadie"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "John Dee"
  ],
  "word": "small fry"
}

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