vittles

[ vit-lz ]

plural noun

1. a nonstandard variant of victuals.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vittles¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

We didn't need much at that—a few meals of vittles fur the men and a little fodder fur our hosses and we'd be satisfied.

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False dignity is the effeck ov nu clothes, no branes and mutch vittles.

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The woman looked up at me with haggard eyes: 'It ain't the vittles, but the pain that's worrying me, ma'am.'

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The tavern keeper rings a gong with a klub when the vittles is reddy, and then the boarders march in; 'tis a moste effecting site!

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If yo' beg a mess of vittles in dis town dey puts yo' in jail.

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