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fitty

[fɪʔi]

fitty is the pronunciation spelling of fifty.

Meaning of fifty

Numeral

fifty

  1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
    • It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 51
    Synonyms:
    50, L, fivety

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Adverb

fitty

  1. (Cornwall) Properly; fitly.
    • […] Cornish and Catholic, so that Miss Pascoe in the choir-loft of the church of the Immaculate Conception can admonish the organist: 'Do it fitty, my handsome.'1957, The Aylesford Review (volume 2, issue 2)

Forms of fitty

Numeral
alternative formfiddy
Noun
pluralfitties

Questions about fitty

What does fitty mean?
Fitty means properly; fitly.
What is fitty the pronunciation spelling of?
Fitty is the pronunciation spelling of fifty.
What part of speech is fitty?
Fitty is an adverb.
How do you pronounce fitty?
Fitty is pronounced [fɪʔi].

Words near fitty in the dictionary

  1. fittonias
  2. Fittons
  3. fitts
  4. Fitts' law
  5. Fitts's law
  6. fitty
  7. fitusiran
  8. fitweed
  9. Fitz
  10. Fitz-
  11. Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome

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