Green’s Dictionary of Slang

insignificant, trifling.

1958		E. Gilbert Vice Trap 57: This isn’t any pissy-ant fencing bit.
1961		R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 123: May be I find out I ain got me no lil pissy ant invessment. Maybe I find out I got me a whole flipfliloppin fed’el budgit.
1969		R. Starnes Flypaper War 198: Qyran is going to hell in a handbasket [...] this pissant country is corrupt, rotten, starving.
1972		R. Barrett Lovomaniacs (1973) 24: Dahlberg can’t get up and walk to the back of the airplane to see if his woman is screwing a pissant copilot.
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 80: And right out of nowhere this jitterbug waltzed up to the card table [and] whipped out this pissant little .22 pistola.
1990		M. McAlary Crack War (1991) 127: Darry was a drone, a pissant worker.
2003		P. Cornwell Blow Fly (2004) 116: When it comes to her, no one’s hiring, unless its some pissant case.
2008		T. Piccirilli Fever Kill 17: With that swagger, the pissant rage in his eyes, the curled lip.
2014		M. Mellon ‘Death of a one-Percenter’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] ‘[Y]our raggedy-ass pissant neighbors’.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 75: If I send our very expensive chopper down there, and it’s a pissant light plane crash, with no injuries, then I’m having your guts for garters.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 122: [A] pissant Outlaw Motorcycle Club that ran meth and trafficked women.