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bitsy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɪtsi/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From bits + -y.

Meanings

  1. Fragmented.
  2. Very small, tiny.
    • The models are all made to scale — twelve inches for our big new battle wagons and the carriers; the older battleships and the others, cruisers, destroyers, get littler and littler, down to the bitsiest ones. 1994, Josette Dermody Wingo, Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves, published 2000, page 25:
    • “It won′t be making the bitsiest bit of difference, Fielder.[…]” 2001, Eugene Cunningham, Gun Bulldogger, page 34:
    • 1995, J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), Glory in Death, 2000, unnumbered page, He never leaves anything out, not the tiniest memo, the bitsiest note.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bitty alternative lexicographic
bitsier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
bitsiest Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

itsy bitsy · itsy-bitsy

Translations (1)

mi nakunaku (fragmented)