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
"I think it's very bitty, very inconsistent. I think clubs are coming to these English grounds and thinking they can have a bit of a go."
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
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
“Little bitty animals count as much as the big ones,” he says.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 28, 2023
“When you was little bitty, honey, yore ma was always makin’ you flowerdy dresses.”
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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