Merriam-Webster rips host comment about Tom Brady

All the Super Bowl buzz on Monday is focused squarely on Tom Brady, who hung up on WEEI's Kirk & Callahan after another radio station host, Alex Reimer, called Brady's 5-year-old daughter "an annoying little pissant."

That has everyone talking, including the Twitter account belonging to the editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which noted that searches for "pissant" have skyrocketed while also ripping Reimer:

By the way, here's the story behind the word:

The word, generally considered to be vulgar, is formed exactly as one might imagine, by blending the urinary sense of piss and the formicine sense of ant.

Although there is a dialectical sense of the word, meaning "ant," this meaning is little used today. The more common sense in modern parlance is "an insignificant person or thing - used as a generalized term of abuse." This sense dates to the beginning of the 20th century.

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