Minnow

Quick meaning: Minnow is a noun meaning Any of certain small fish.

Meaning

Any of certain small fish.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
2. (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
3. To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).
4. To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.
5. (rare) Very small; tiny.

Example Sentences

Heare you this Triton of the Minnoues?

Let him denie that there was another shewe made of the little minnow his Brother, Dodrans Dicke, at Peter-houſe, called, Duns furens. Dick Harvey in a frenſie.

I wonder King George is let venture down on this coast, where he might be snapped up in a moment like a minnow by a her'n, so near as we be to the field of Boney's vagaries!

[H]e was in the receipt of some per centage on its dealings; and, participating in all its facilities for the employment of money to advantage, was considered, by the minnows among the tritons of the East, a rich man.

Word Forms

• minnows
• minnie
• minny
• minow
• minnowing
• minnowed

Synonyms for minnow

Depending on context, synonyms include minim, pinkeen, nobody, no one, also-ran, cipher.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include goldfish, emerald, silver, shiner, fathead, minim.

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