bit·ty

[bit-ee]
adjective, bit·ti·er, bit·ti·est.
1.
Informal. tiny; itty-bitty: a little bitty town.
2.
Chiefly British. containing or consisting of small bits or pieces; fragmentary.

Origin:
1890–95; bit + -y1

bit·ti·ness, noun
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bitty (ˈbɪtɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj , -tier, -tiest
1.  lacking unity; disjointed
2.  containing bits, sediment, etc
 
'bittiness
 
n

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Bitty is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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Word Origin & History

bitty
1892, "made of little scraps," from bit (1). As a clipped variant of bitsy, recorded from 1905, Amer.Eng.
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Example sentences
He always went out with little bitty kids so they could trick-or-treat safely.
As the water flows out through the gills, the shark swallows the bitty beasties in the water.
Or eat them with a spoon as if they were a bitty melon.
And they found that the relatively smaller footpads of, say, leopards are much stiffer than those of little bitty kitties.
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