Word: pipsqueak
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...Football League division championship in seven years, and chances were, they could hardly have cared less that they still had one regular-season game to play against the Los Angeles Rams. So why were they doing pushups, and running wind sprints? Could it really have been because a chubby pipsqueak with glasses was screaming at them: "You don't have any pride. All you have is shame. You're a disgrace to the National Football League...
Among today's grand array of orchestral instruments, the humble recorder - usually a foot-long wooden pipe with seven holes for the fingers and one for the thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts...
...clever for its own good. Based on Ann Jellicoe's giddy, free-spirited play-still bouncing along off-Broadway-The Knack tells of a provincial lass (Rita Tushingham) at large in London who stumbles into a house occupied by three oddball bachelors. One is a potent pipsqueak (Ray Brooks), mysteriously endowed with the knack of "making it" with the opposite sex. One is a pallid, reticent schoolteacher (Michael Crawford), for whom the way of a Mod with a maid remains ever beyond reach. The third (Donal Donnelly) is a simple eccentric who spends his energy painting the walls...
...station that plays jazz jazz jazz. Her mother protests: "Hardly decent, is it?" Hardly. Many moviegoers, in fact, will find this picture downright scandalous. But Director Jorn Donner is not prurient; he is Priapic. He does not play the facts of life for sniggers; he displays them, like some pipsqueak Plautus, for grand though gross guffaws...
...night in a glass of water, self-energizing mustaches, and a gap between his two front teeth that has earned him a reputation in English restaurants as a man who can eat peas with his teeth clenched. He has mastered the wax-fruity manner of the pushy little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love to be accepted as an old-school-tiehard, but inevitably smacks more of the pub than the club; and since the war he has done an admirable succession of non-U turns as a sort of half-inflated Blimp...