Other forms: bantams
A bantam is a very small breed of domestic fowl. Keep bantams, a bantam hen, bantam eggs.
They eat little and lay small eggs, which is why they suit a garden where a full-sized flock would not. The word gives bantamweight in boxing, and the name comes from a port in Java.
1nounbantamA very small breed of domestic fowl.
“We keep a few bantams in the garden, and their eggs are tiny but delicious.”
bantam is a bird.
Named after Bantam, a port in Java, from which the birds were said to have been brought.
Dutch - w:Bantam (city) (Banten province in Java).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA