bitty
[bit-ee]
adjective, bit·ti·er, bit·ti·est.
Informal. tiny; itty-bitty: a little bitty town.
Chiefly British. containing or consisting of small bits or pieces; fragmentary.
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poor, limited, short, paltry, slight, meager, young, miniature, modest, cramped, microscopic, narrow, minuscule, small-scale, insignificant, teeny, puny, sketchy, scattered, little
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Origin of bitty
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Examples from the Web for bitty
Grandma was a little, bitty woman; so little that she wore a number one shoe.
It's just a bitty little dot, but the map was made before the evacuation started.
The Cosmic Computer|Henry Beam Piper
bitty
adjective -tier or -tiest
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bitty
1892, "made of little scraps," from bit (n.1) + -y (2). As a clipped variant of bitsy, recorded from 1905, American English.
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