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nittily en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɪtɪli/

Etymology

From nitty + -ly.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) In a nitty manner; lousily.
   • hee was a man nittily needy and therefore aduentrous, esteemed, but an idel fellow a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

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