Synonyms for bantam:
adj. small
Examples of uses:
P.T.'s a bantam cruiser, only much easier to handle.
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Peggy's old lady nailed me on the stairs tonight and lit into me like a bantam.
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This... is a gray bantam-wing mosquito, which are most common where?
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In the Brotherhood of the Cockerel you start as a hatchling, then a chick, eventually you progress to bantam.
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And as the voluminous corporate automaton bulldozes it's way through bantam America,
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The little bantam can crow quicker, oftener and with more ginger than any other rooster on the place.
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Title: The Red Cow and Her Friends, author: Peter McArthur, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48129/48129-h/48129-h.htm
The mud was too deep for the Shanghai to run and the bantam killed him.
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Title: South American Fights and Fighters, author: Cyrus Townsend Brady, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20910/20910-h/20910-h.htm
The full-bred bantam-cock should not weigh more than a pound.
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Title: The Book of Sports:, author: William Martin, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25068/25068-h/25068-h.htm
Then he put the seven eggs in the nest carefully, and got the little bantam hen and put her in, too.
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Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 15, April 12, 1914, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14111/14111-h/14111-h.htm
Mother bantam would cluck and run back and forth in the coop and call to them, she was so afraid something would happen.
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Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 15, April 12, 1914, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14111/14111-h/14111-h.htm
