Usually means: Insignificant person, often annoyingly petty.
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  1. pissant: Merriam-Webster
  2. pissant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pissant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pissant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pissant: Wordnik
  6. pissant: Wiktionary
  7. pissant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pissant: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. pissant: Dictionary.com
  10. pissant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Pissant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. pissant: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pissant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pissant: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. pissant, pissant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (pissant)

noun:  (dated outside dialects) An ant.
noun:  (derogatory) An insignificant person.
noun:  (derogatory) A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
noun:  (derogatory) A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.
adjective:  (sometimes vulgar) Insignificant or unimportant.

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