whit

[ hwit, wit ]

/ ʰwɪt, wɪt /

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noun

a particle; bit; jot (used especially in negative phrases): not a whit better.

Nearby words

whistler, james, whistling, whistling buoy, whistling duck, whistling swan, whit, whit monday, whit sunday, whit week, whitaker, whitbread

Origin of whit

1470–80; perhaps alteration of Middle English wiht wight¹

Can be confused

whit wit

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Examples from the Web for whit

In 1997, Whit Stillman re-created Studio 54 in its ornate lobby for his film The Last Days of Disco.
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Have you and Whit wanted to hook up again since The Last Days of Disco?
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Two decades on from his masterpiece on anti-Americanism abroad, Whit Stillman remains obsessed with native-expat dynamics.
Whit Stillman on the 20th Anniversary of ‘Barcelona’, His New Amazon Series, and the Myth of the Ugly Expat|Michael Weiss|August 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even so, the comments were illuminating in that they show that Obama is of no frame of mind to change the current policy a whit.
That Fascinating Obama–Charlie Rose Interview|Michael Tomasky|June 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The tone was set early when Republican pollster Whit Ayers declared that “we are in an epic struggle against secular socialism.”
CPAC Defiant in Obama Era|Howard Kurtz|March 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
"This room looks every whit as grand as it used to look to me when I was a boy," he said.
The Yates Pride|Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The praise is not a whit too high; the truth could not have been better said.
The Age of Shakespeare|Algernon Charles Swinburne
Patricks clover works by opposite, I guess, but she drove along, her high spirits not a whit repressed by what had happened.
The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach|Margaret Penrose
That the standard of measurement she applied was tremendously high made no difference to Clancy, abated no whit her judgment.
Find the Woman|Arthur Somers Roche
Now, suppose six-feet-two conqueror, and five-feet-eight beaten; would Sayers have been a whit the less gallant and meritorious?
Roundabout Papers|William Makepeace Thackeray

British Dictionary definitions for whit (1 of 2)

whit

/ (wɪt) /

noun

(usually used with a negative) the smallest particle; iota; jothe has changed not a whit

Word Origin for whit

C15: probably variant of wight 1

British Dictionary definitions for whit (2 of 2)

Whit

/ (wɪt) /

noun

See Whitsuntide

adjective

of or relating to Whitsuntide

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