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bantam

[ ban-tuhm ]

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noun

(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.
Synonyms: Lilliputian, pygmy, wee, small, miniature, petite

Bantam

[ ban-tuhm; Dutch bahn-tahm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

bantam

/ ˈbæntəm /

any of various very small breeds of domestic fowl
a small but aggressive person
boxing short for bantamweight
1. an age level of between 13 and 15 in amateur sport, esp ice hockey
2. ( as modifier )
  bantam hockey

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Origin of bantam¹

1740–50; apparently after Bantam, through which such chickens may have been imported to Europe

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Origin of bantam¹

C18: after Bantam village in Java, said to be the original home of this fowl

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Lonard thinks ha-ha-ha and tells Bantam that the rights have reverted to him, which they have.

Bantam calls and says, “We must publish Juvenal [original title].”

This 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.

In 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 mud was too deep for the Shanghai to run and the bantam killed him.

The full-bred Bantam-cock should not weigh more than a pound.

Then 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.

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