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Pip-squeak

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small and insignificant person. derogatory, informal
  2. 2
    someone who is small and insignificant wordnet

Etymology

Sir Eric Geddes in a speech in December 1918 on German war reparations for World War 1: “We will get out of her all you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can here the pips squeak.”

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