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tidgy

tidgy adjective: very small; teensy.

Adjective

tidgy (comparative more tidgy, superlative most tidgy)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Very small; teensy.
    • […] all we could scrape up was jobs selling things for tidgy little firms that weren't big enough to be mopped up into any of the nationalisation schemes...1950, Anthony West, The vintage
    • 'It's only a tidgy one,' he said. 'Nobody in Huguenot seems very impressed.'2001, Max Hennessy, The Lion at Sea

Examples of tidgy in a sentence

  • 'She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.' 'They're not then.' Emma was getting heated.2001, Eric Malpass, At the Height of the Moon:
  • I was going to let him have one in the tidgy triangle below the throat like Suze taught me, but everything stopped at the sound of Paulie retching.2008, Jim Cartwright, Supermarket supermodel:

Forms of tidgy

comparativemore tidgy
superlativemost tidgy

Questions about tidgy

What does tidgy mean?
Tidgy means very small; teensy.
How do you use tidgy in a sentence?
'She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.' 'They're not then.' Emma was getting heated.
What part of speech is tidgy?
Tidgy is an adjective.

Words near tidgy in the dictionary

  1. tidewrack
  2. Tidey
  3. tidge
  4. tidges
  5. tidgiest
  6. tidgy
  7. tidiable
  8. tidiacic
  9. tidied
  10. tidied one's sock drawer
  11. tidied up

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