little-bitty
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of little-bitty
1900–05, Amer.; little bit + -y 2
Example Sentences
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“This one’s an idiot. He got stuck in this little-bitty hole the other day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Hooks, who is white, told me that it’s important “to reduce the number of costly little-bitty precincts in small counties. I’ve been through it in Sumter,” he said.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2018
Of an undersized player, he might say, “He’s a little-bitty thing, a bantam rooster. But he’s young. If he keeps eatin’ his cornbread, he’ll be man-sized someday.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2018
Most sadly of all, crammed into a corner, oddly shaped and dark, the little-bitty kitchen sighed “Knights of the Round Table.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
I tell Calvin, “We have to go down six feet? And wide as the tube? And you brought that little-bitty trowel?”
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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