little-bitty

American  

[lit-l-bit-ee] / ˈlɪt lˈbɪt i /

adjective

Informal.

1. extremely small; tiny.

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Etymology

Origin of little-bitty

1900–05, Amer.; little bit + -y ²

Example Sentences

“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