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litty

litty adjective: little.

Adjective (1)

litty (comparative more litty, superlative most litty)

  1. Little.
    • “I think long time,” replied the Chinaman. “See plenty litty mat lice; too muchy plenty litty mat lice; sixty ton, litty mat lice. I think all-e-time: perhaps plenty opium plenty litty mat lice.”1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The Cargo of the ‘Flying Scud’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 236
    • Missee Klitty got Jelly on litty string.1895, George B. Myles, The Winning Hand; Or, The Imposter: A Comedy, in Four Acts, page 12

Noun

litty

  1. A little bit.
    • Keep Joss-house a litty on the larbourd-bow. Steady as you go.1859, Jack Ariel, John Davis, Jack Ariel; or, Life on board an Indiaman
    • I will send you some sweet cakes and a few light cakes and a litty buter, and a few apples and a pair of socks, and your litty girls wants to send you a sweet potato but I dont no if I can get them in my sack.1983, The Weft, 1658-1979: A Genealogical Record, page 376

Adjective (2)

litty (comparative more litty, superlative most litty)

  1. (West-Country, Dorset) Lively and nimble.
    • ...and her pink vrock, and her pink zun-bonnet, and her pink bows all over her, and her pink parasol, and her pink this, and her pink that, skipped up beside her, so litty as a linnet.1923, John Read, Cluster-o'-vive: stories and studies of old-world Wessex, page 130
    • The zilver-weed upon the green, Out where my sons an' daughters played, Had never time to bloom between The litty steps obwoy an' maid.2014, Bernard Richards, Alastair Fowler, Brian Richards, English Verse 1830 - 1890, →ISBN, page 35
  2. (slang) Excellent, extremely fun.
    Synonyms:
    lit

Examples of litty in a sentence

  • Those litty bitty potatoes browned on all sides, heavy on the pepper; snap beans seasoned with rind; yellow squash sprinkled with vinegar and sugar2014, Toni Morrison, Beloved, →ISBN, page 17:
  • He dealt warily with traders, whom he classified in three groups: "'He cheat a litty" — "He cheat plenty" — and "I think he cheat too much.'"2003, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (edited by Roslyn Jolly), The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands, →ISBN, page 28:

Synonyms of litty

Forms of litty

comparativemore litty
superlativemost litty

Origin of litty

From little + -y.

From lit + -y.

Words formed from litty

Phrases with litty

Questions about litty

What does litty mean?
Litty means little.
How do you use litty in a sentence?
Those litty bitty potatoes browned on all sides, heavy on the pepper; snap beans seasoned with rind; yellow squash sprinkled with vinegar and sugar
What part of speech is litty?
Litty can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near litty in the dictionary

  1. Littrow prism
  2. Littrow projection
  3. Littrow spectrograph
  4. Littréan
  5. Litts
  6. litty
  7. litty bitty
  8. litty-bitty
  9. littérateur
  10. littérateurs
  11. lituate

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