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Meanings of bitty in English

(Used informally) very small.

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      Usage of bitty in English
      1
      I put itty-bitty drops of wax in the tree to make apples.
      Rant: an oral biography of buster casey
      2
      Somebody else can teach the bitty kiddies how to fold their wings.
      Fire Season
      3
      God knew how many little-bitty bullets he had rattling around in him.
      I'll never get out of this world alive
      4
      You can see all the little bitty fibers of the Grinch's costume.
      Ebony
      5
      Those little bitty pieces Audie put into his whirligigs weren't worth anything.
      Kings of the earth: a novel
      6
      Well, actually I think I just want those things in little bitty doses.
      James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
      7
      He hadn't bothered with underwear, not even the itty-bitty red ones.
      Dead to the world
      8
      Look at all those windows with all those little bitty panes of glass.
      Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
      9
      It's a false bloom, on the end of a little-bitty squash.
      The prince of frogtown
      10
      Or eat them with a spoon as if they were a bitty melon.
      The new yorker
      11
      This is a little bitty country in a big bad world.
      Provenance
      12
      He got his piece in this little bitty clip holster on his pants.
      Carrion comfort
      13
      Nancy Reagan roses mixed with baby's breath and white little-bitty carnations.
      Rant: an oral biography of buster casey
      14
      IBS officially stands for inflatable boat, small; unofficially, itty-bitty ship.
      The warrior elite: the forging of seal class 228
      15
      While the movie has plenty of noise, incident and anecdote, it is frustratingly bitty.
      The Guardian
      16
      Take the Sun, Jupiter, and one of Jupiter's itty-bitty moons.
      Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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