Someone who is small and insignificant.

synonyms: pip-squeak, squirt.

Roget 643: unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality.    triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness etc. adj.; poverty; smallness etc. 32; vanity etc. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference etc. 866; no object.    nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter etc. adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose [Fr.]; child's play, kinderspiel.    toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air;" yankee notions [U.S.].    trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras^†, frippery; leather or prunello;" chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse etc. (inutility) 645; scum etc. (dirt) 653.    joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge etc. (unmeaning) 517; fiddlestick^†, fiddlestick end^†; pack of nonsense, mere farce.    straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit^†, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen^†, red cent [U.S.].    minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.    nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus [Lat.]; flash in the pan etc. (impotence) 158; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482.    ... show more

Roget 193: littleness etc. adj.; smallness etc. (of quantity) 32; exiguity, inextension^†; parvitude^†, parvity^†; duodecimo^†; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness etc. 203.    dwarf, pygmy, pigmy^†, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon^†, urchin, elf; atomy^†, dandiprat^†; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb^†; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling^†, cock-sparrow.    animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet^†, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon^†; bacteria; infusoria^†; microzoa [Micro.]; phytozoaria^†; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.    point; atom etc. (small quantity) 32; fragment etc. (small part) 51; powder etc. 330; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae etc. (unimportance) 643.    micrometer; vernier; scale.    microphotography, photomicrography, micrography^†; photomicrograph, microphotograph; microscopy; microscope (optical instruments) 445.    ... show more

A young person of either sex.

synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster ... show more.

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed; man in the street.    mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi^†; trash; profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.    commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary^†, proletaire^†, roturier^†, Mr.    Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette^†, demimonde.    peasant, countryman, boor, carle^†, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius [Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^†, tyke, tike, chuff^†, ryot^†, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^†; rustic, hayseed [Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling^†; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin^†, looby^†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper^†, slubberdegullion^†; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.    upstart, parvenu, skipjack^†; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.    beggar, gaberlunzie^†, muckworm^†, mudlark^†, sans culotte, raff^†, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^†, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^†, scrub, jade; gossoon^†.    Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub^†, rough diamond^†.    barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.    ... show more

Dutch: jongere, jongeling, minderjarige, ding, kind
Polish: dziecko, dziecię