what exactly is a piss ant?

[LSK]

Malloy speaks of them often. :shrug:

[kmla]

1. Next door neighbor of the dung beetle..

[commander bunnypants]

2. he is sitting in the white house

CB

[Aristus]

3. I always thought it was just one of those meaningless words

the sole purpose of which is to convey contempt and scorn, which it does very well.

[Misunderestimator]

4. One word... pissant

Just means something that is obsolete or insignificant.

[XemaSab]

5. It's derived from the French puissant

meaning powerful.

[SOteric]

12. I've read that it's a bastardised pronounciation of the French

paysan meaning peasant, someone who is crude or ill-bread, a kind of country bumpkin.

[TX-RAT]

6. Around here it's a species of small red ant, not a Fire Ant

Usually their mounds are no bigger than a half dollar.

[SoCalDem]

7. pissant..pic

[no name no slogan]

8. Is it related to the urine monkey?

[Xipe Totec]

9. They're small and yellow, almost the color of piss

They have no sting. But they're everywhere in South Texas. They love sugar and fat. The best way to kill them is to put out a saucer of vegetable oil out in the open. They will crawl over their dead comrades to get to the oil, and drown in it.

Wicked weird buggers.

[trackfan]

10. It is derived from pismire:

pis·mire (psmr, pz-)
n.
An ant.

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Middle English pissemyre : pisse, urine (from the smell of the formic acid that ants secrete); see piss + mire, ant (probably of Scandinavian origin).

Cp. Greek - Myrmex = ant; Lat. Formica = ant

[AirmensMom]

11. According to my bug man ...

they're the little ants that get into the house and walk around on the countertops. They like sugar, so they'll take a sweet bait back to the nest and kill everyone with it. They don't bite or chew on wood -- they just piss you off!

:rofl:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

13. Immanuel Kant was a real one.