Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very small.
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- adjective colloquial Alternative form of
itsy-bitsy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used informally) very small
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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More often than not, the itty-bitty details of your daily life aren't useful or interesting to your followers -- unless and until those details help them solve their own problems.
Arielle Ford: It's Not a Diary ... or a Rant ... It's a Blog Arielle Ford 2012
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God I love the Internet. crm3006: Maybe someday your itty-bitty marbles will reach their final destination and you will post under your real name.
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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Well, it's essentially a regurgitated digest of the original, in which D'Souza stamps his itty-bitty feet and insists that Obama's following in his father's Kenyan footsteps in his "determination" to "confiscate" the "wealth" of "those on top."
Dinesh D'Souza Docks In America's Safest Harbor For Lackwits [UPDATE] The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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More often than not, the itty-bitty details of your daily life aren't useful or interesting to your followers -- unless and until those details help them solve their own problems.
Arielle Ford: It's Not a Diary ... or a Rant ... It's a Blog Arielle Ford 2012
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I walked out, careful not to trip in the metallic gold thigh-high boots I had on with an itty-bitty gold bikini.
Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011
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If successful, those itty-bitty stalks will fill out to a dense grass -- a prospect my hosts from the estuary program assured me would happen in short order, no problem.
Bill Chameides: Working on the Wetlands: One Blade of Grass at a Time Bill Chameides 2010
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If successful, those itty-bitty stalks will fill out to a dense grass -- a prospect my hosts from the estuary program assured me would happen in short order, no problem.
Bill Chameides: Working on the Wetlands: One Blade of Grass at a Time Bill Chameides 2010
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God I love the Internet. crm3006: Maybe someday your itty-bitty marbles will reach their final destination and you will post under your real name.
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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If successful, those itty-bitty stalks will fill out to a dense grass -- a prospect my hosts from the estuary program assured me would happen in short order, no problem.
Bill Chameides: Working on the Wetlands: One Blade of Grass at a Time Bill Chameides 2010
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Alastair pointed and called excitedly, Look how itty-bitty the paddle boats are!
Unleashed John F. Kennedy 2011
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