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bitty

American  
[bit-ee] / ˈbɪt i /

adjective

bittier, bittiest
  1. Informal. tiny; itty-bitty.

    a little bitty town.

  2. Chiefly British. containing or consisting of small bits or pieces; fragmentary.


bitty British  
/ ˈbɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. lacking unity; disjointed

  2. containing bits, sediment, etc

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Other Word Forms

  • bittiness noun

Etymology

Origin of bitty

First recorded in 1890–95; bit 2 + -y 1

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