bitsy

• bitty

bits +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪtsi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪtsi

bitsy (comparative bitsier, superlative bitsiest)

1. Fragmented.
2. Very small, tiny.
   • 1994, Josette Dermody Wingo, Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves, published 2000, page 25:

     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.

   • 1995, J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), Glory in Death, 2000, unnumbered page,

     He never leaves anything out, not the tiniest memo, the bitsiest note.

   • 2001, Eugene Cunningham, Gun Bulldogger‎, page 34:

     “It won′t be making the bitsiest bit of difference, Fielder. […] ”

• itsy-bitsy/itsy bitsy