Definition of small fry Small fry
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What does small fry mean?
WordNet
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| small fry - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" | ||
| child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling | ||
| juvenile, juvenile person a young person, not fully developed | ||
| child's body the body of a human child | ||
| bairn a child: son or daughter | ||
| buster a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; "crime buster" | ||
| changeling a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | ||
| child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; "Mozart was a child prodigy" | ||
| foster-child, foster child, fosterling a child who is raised by foster parents | ||
| scamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag one who is playfully mischievous | ||
| kiddy a young child | ||
| orphan a young animal without a mother | ||
| peanut pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | ||
| picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | ||
| poster child a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy" | ||
| kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | ||
| silly a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly" | ||
| sprog a child | ||
| bambino, toddler, tot, yearling a young child | ||
| urchin poor and often mischievous city child | ||
| small fry - someone who is small and insignificant | ||
| pip-squeak, squirt | ||
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Wiktionary 
- small fry (Noun)
One or more small or immature fish. - small fry (Noun)
One or more children. - small fry (Noun)
One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
