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bantam noun. M18.
[App. from Bantam, a district of NW Java, but the fowls are not native there.]
A small kind of domestic fowl, of which the cock is a spirited fighter. M18.
fig. A small but spirited person. L18.
Comb.: bantamweight (of) a weight at which boxing etc. matches are made, intermediate between featherweight and flyweight, in the amateur boxing scale now being between 51 and 54 kg, though differing for professionals, wrestlers, and weightlifters, and according to time and place; (a boxer etc.) of this weight.