Pissant
Small ant; also a pejorative
Pissant
A pissant, also seen as piss ant or piss-ant, refers to a type of ant. The word is also used as a pejorative noun or adjective, indicating insignificance. The original pissant is any of a certain group of large ant species, commonly called wood ants, that make mounded nests in forests throughout most of Europe. The Swedish form of the name pissant (pissmyra) was used already by Linnaeus in 1761. The name arises from the formic acid that constitutes their venom and that they can eject from their abdomen in an "acid squirting" behaviour. Formica rufa is one such ant, but there are others with similar characteristics. Forelius and Iridomyrmex are two genera of piss ants. In the United States, the word pissant may refer to any small ant that infests a home.
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