fitten

American  

[fit-n] / ˈfɪt n /

adjective

South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. suitable; appropriate.

2. pleasing, attractive, or delicious.

   That pie was mighty fitten.

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Etymology

Origin of fitten

First recorded in 1635–45; fit ¹ + -en ³

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

fitten

He ain't fitten to stay about the house.'

From Marcy The Blockade Runner by White, George G. (George Gorgas)

To look after you kids—that's why—if so be your Pa thinks it fitten to send you out to Dot and Dash.

From The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Baker, Willard F.

I should 'a' reckoned the difference in rank would a sejested to you that a corn-shuck bed warn't just fitten for me to sleep on.

From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Twain, Mark

They put up a head and foot-stone, and writ somepin' on 'em about this hole a bein' the only fitten place fer a man that wuz a goin' ag'in his neighbors fer the trust.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

And here you are lamentin' that there's nothin' at the penitentiary fitten to eat.

From The Jucklins A Novel by Read, Opie Percival