bitty
Americanadjective
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Informal. tiny; itty-bitty.
a little bitty town.
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Chiefly British. containing or consisting of small bits or pieces; fragmentary.
adjective
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lacking unity; disjointed
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containing bits, sediment, etc
Other Word Forms
- bittiness noun
Etymology
Origin of bitty
Example Sentences
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Plenty more dinosaurs will arrive in the film’s two-hour-plus running time: swooping Quetzalcoatlus, splashing Mosasaurus, frilled Dilophosaurus and a bitty Whoknowswhatasaurus that Ali’s Duncan keeps in a bamboo birdcage by his boat dock in Suriname.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
Can't lie, though, it's a wee bitty boring the now...
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024
“Little bitty animals count as much as the big ones,” he says.
From National Geographic • Nov. 28, 2023
Leslie: “Yes. And I’ve been on a horse since I was a little bitty girl. I won the junior national jumpers when I was 17. So I rode horses all my life.”
From Washington Post • May 3, 2023
“Mommy’s so proud of her little bitty opossum!”
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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