littlie

British

/ ˈlɪtlɪ /

noun

informal a young child

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She’d been taught in school that they were full of life, but this one was like the deserts she’d imagined as a littlie—featureless humps stretching into the distance, one after another.

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There was something earnest in the way she put stylus to paper, like a littlie learning how to read.

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“Like I said, when I was a littlie.”

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She had stopped thinking of it as a toy, like a littlie’s balloon.

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David always referred to them as “Mom” and “Dad,” words Tally hadn’t used for Sol and Ellie since she was a littlie.

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