pipsqueak

pipsqueak

A small, weak, or timid person, especially a male. A: "There's no way a pipsqueak like you can win this race!" B: "Oh yeah? I'll show you a thing or two!" Watch where you're going, pipsqueak, or I'll paste you one right in the face.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pipsqueak

n. a small or timid man or boy. (Also a term of address.) Shut up, you little pipsqueak, or I’ll hit you.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • keep (one's) socks on
  • gain in
  • gain in (something)
  • a shot at (someone or something)
  • milksop
  • bawangos
  • milktoast
  • milquetoast
  • go-getter
References in periodicals archive
One of the reasons the Apple iPhone 3G ( which has sold close to 43 million units worldwide) did not make even a pipsqueak in India is possibly because of the network issue.
He fails to inspire and when I see him on the world stage with other foreign ministers he looks like some sort of young interloper in short trousers Aa a mere pipsqueak.But he is not the only political pygmy on that world stageAustep forward Ahmed Aboul Gheit, someone else with the presence of an empty pinata.Both are immodest little men with much to be modest about and yet there they are in highly elevated positions, plotting and scheming like a couple of school sneaks rather than acting like international statesmen as their offices demand.Only the other day, Aboul Gheit, sneaked into Britain for a 30 minute meeting with Miliband Aa there was a virtual media blackout.
And a set of four of the different hamster characters - Chunk, Num Nums, Pipsqueak and Mr Squiggles - was auctioning for as much as pounds 150 on the eBay website last week.
So General Motors announced this past week that it is killing off the Pontiac brand, maker of muscular, noisy, gas-guzzling V-8-powered vehicles immortalised in song and movies for the way they seemed to shout to every other car on the block: 'Out of the way, pipsqueak!'
NewComers Mixed Adult/Junior Class: 1 Aislinn Cote (Rakard); 2 Kate Addison (The Chief); 3 Jan Rundell (Pipsqueak); 4 Natasha Park (Lucia); 5 Miriam Al Khalifa (Porsha); 6 Gen Di Marzo (Dakota).
Samson the lion (speaking in the gravelly tones of Kiefer Sutherland) is the unabashed star of the zoo, regaling his pipsqueak cub Ryan (Greg Cipes) and others with exciting tales of his supposedly wild origins.
New and wonderful retailers are in Nolita, making it even more special and exciting than before: Objets du Desir, Pipsqueak, Nike, Saigoniste, Me & Ro, and Daniel Espinosa are but a few of the new Nolita crowd.
ABCNews.com said, "The politico-media establishment continues to look at him as an antiwar pipsqueak ...
Because there are skinny little opposition runts who feel the need to express their sycophantic views about Billy on Billy's television networks, before you know it a tiny private stupid remark made by one pipsqueak and overheard by another becomes news for a day.
How dare these pipsqueak upstarts, some without even so much as four generations of landed wealth to their names, surpass the magnificence of Ye Old Money?
Of course he's a know-nothing little pipsqueak compared with Ann Richards, but then, Richards is pretty special.
ILet's face it, until the eighth episode it's been boredom incarnate, apart from a pipsqueak of scandal, so Monday night's Hardhome was like a bucket of iced water thrown in your face then clonked on the head with said bucket.
I can not only bet, I can close to guarantee you that your party is going to be a little pipsqueak party after May 7 compared to the Liberal Democrats" Nick Clegg challenges a Ukip candidate "Plastic surgery is dangerous and makes people look a bit silly.
Smelly, too...Pop's finest pipsqueak has already caused upset in his new abode - and he only started renting it a couple of weeks back.
IT'S not just Justin Bieber's career that's going down the plughole, the pop pipsqueak has attempted to wash away his sins by turning to God for support and being baptised in a bath.