A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
Get out of my way, you little twerp!
A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp, calling him "the original...
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