small fry

Questions about small fry

What does small fry mean?

small fry means "someone who is small and insignificant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for small fry?

Close synonyms include pip-squeak, squirt, child, kid, youngster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is small fry a common word?

small fry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.