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
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At one point these diminutive, muttering, bewhiskered mechanics accompany Grogu on a side quest, piling into a bitty space ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
We took that little bitty speck of music and it’s global now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
"This little bitty white, almost albino-looking, white shark came up to the surface," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
“Little bitty animals count as much as the big ones,” he says.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 28, 2023
I ain’t your Mr. Texas, but I cain’t take it if’n you go’n dish out little bitty hints bout it ever time yore conscience starts to hurt.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
On Salt Cay, the bittiest island of the bunch, a local — known in the past as Belongers — named Gladys offered me a ride from the airport to town.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2016
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