Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. slang A small child.
Examples
“For every row or seat between you and any ankle-biter under age 10, add $25.”
The Wall Street Journal: Flying the Friendly And Baby-Free Skies
“I see I've attracted an ankle-biter with a Sonoma County pedigree.”
“They remind me of a pack of feral, ankle-biter dogs led by the ones that yip the loudest.”
“In the 1980s, Joe Montana served as inspiration for an ankle-biter growing up a San Francisco 49ers fan in northern California.”
“My mom started me on the piano when I was a teeny ankle-biter, then I started the pipes when I was fifteen or sixteen.”
“Compared with the big questions, Rohter comes off as an ankle-biter.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Hayden: Oliver Stone's Latin America
“The president of Brazil is preserving his country's unfortunate image as a resentful, Third-World ankle-biter.”
“Brazil may be gaining some respect on the economic and monetary front but when it comes to geopolitical leadership, Mr. da Silva is working overtime to preserve the country's image as a resentful, Third-World ankle-biter.”
“A stupid game of a cartoon ankle-biter that has two red xs appear after jiggling the fone is a ridiculous game but certainly not something that we should be censoring; let the market make that decision, for crap sakes … ..”
“Instead, their MO will be the Somali model: nickel-and-dime, ankle-biter stuff that produces lots of blood and body bags for the TV cameras.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ankle-biter’.
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Affectionate names you call your kids
peanut, pickle, jelly bean, babby, babs, cutie-head, sweetlie, treasure, cutie, monkey, noodles, monkey-noodles and 21 more...
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litany of lexical likes
words I find interesting or that stuck in my head or that I want to revisit at some point
loblolly, animadvert, misoneism, outrance, chokedamp, appropinquate, noesis, cataphor, flabbergastment, godforsaken, mendacity, sussurus and 86 more...
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A is for Agent Orange
My A words
abracadabra, agent orange, akimbo, ale, algorithm, anachronism, anachronistic, ankle-biter, ants in your pants, appaloosa, applejack, applesauce and 40 more...
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lea A small person or a rug rat. Feb 28, 2009