piker
Example Sentences
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Michael Bloomberg, another SPC, with his own media empire, makes Schultz look like a piker by comparison.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
But even he was a piker compared with wartime presidents such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2014
The Rapture is a piker in this film; of its reported $16 million budget, roughly $15 million appears to have gone to Cage on a dare that he maintain a straight face.
From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 2, 2014
Although Lindsey soon found himself out of a job as a result, he turned out to be a piker.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2010
In the words in point we must assume an earlier form, cocker and piker, to which the diminutive form -el is affixed.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
