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pittie

pittie is the obsolete spelling of pity.

Meaning of pity

Verb

pity (third-person singular simple present pities, present participle pitying, simple past and past participle pitied)

  1. (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).
    • You have got to pity the guy - he lost his wife, mother and job in the same month.
  2. (transitive) To feel contempt for someone who is hopelessly inferior.
  3. (regional, transitive) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
    • She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Noun

pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)

  1. (endearing, informal) A pit bull terrier.
    • I was used to slammed doors, rumbling buses, shouting, snarling pitties, police sirens, […]2012, Marta Acosta, Dark Companion, page 33
    • Maybe he'd want a signal from me that he should rush to the carrier and retrieve a pittie on his own— a small one, alive, our new class pet.2014, Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, page 247

Synonyms of pittie

Forms of pittie

pluralpitties

Origin of pittie

From pit (“pit bull terrier”) + -ie.

Questions about pittie

What does pittie mean?
Pittie means a pit bull terrier.
What is pittie the obsolete spelling of?
Pittie is the obsolete spelling of pity.
What part of speech is pittie?
Pittie is a noun.
What is the plural of pittie?
The plural of pittie is pitties.

Words near pittie in the dictionary

  1. pitterpatter
  2. pitterpatters
  3. pitters
  4. pittid
  5. pittids
  6. pittie
  7. pitties
  8. pittiful
  9. pitting
  10. pitting against
  11. pitting corrosion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pittie (page history and authors); pity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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