bantam
(often initial capital letter) a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size.
a small and feisty or quarrelsome person.
diminutive; tiny: bantam editions of the classics.
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a village in W Java, in S Indonesia: first Dutch settlement in the East Indies.
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How to use bantam in a sentence
Lonard thinks ha-ha-ha and tells bantam that the rights have reverted to him, which they have.
Elmore Leonard’s Rocky Road to Fame and Fortune | Mike Lupica | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTbantam calls and says, “We must publish Juvenal [original title].”
Elmore Leonard’s Rocky Road to Fame and Fortune | Mike Lupica | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis seems like a bit too much bantam strutting, when the jury is literally still out in much of the country.
Heinz wrote the book in his makeshift den, a bantam-size office that he had constructed off the TV room in a corner of his garage.
The Night Vince Lombardi Lay Awake Brooding Over a 49-0 Win | W.C. Heinz | January 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn another study, “one man reported that he felt compelled to incubate and help hatch out a clutch of bantam chickens.”
The little bantam can crow quicker, oftener and with more ginger than any other rooster on the place.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurThe mud was too deep for the Shanghai to run and the bantam killed him.
South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend BradyThe full-bred bantam-cock should not weigh more than a pound.
The Book of Sports: | William MartinThen he put the seven eggs in the nest carefully, and got the little bantam hen and put her in, too.
Mother bantam would cluck and run back and forth in the coop and call to them, she was so afraid something would happen.
British Dictionary definitions for bantam
/ (ˈbæntəm) /
any of various very small breeds of domestic fowl
a small but aggressive person
boxing short for bantamweight
Canadian
an age level of between 13 and 15 in amateur sport, esp ice hockey
(as modifier): bantam hockey
Origin of bantam
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