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▪ I. fitty, a.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈfɪtɪ|
[? f. fit a. or v. + -y1; but cf. featous, featish, and featy of which it may be a corruption.]
Fitting, becoming, proper, suitable; hence, nice, trim, neat.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. ix. (Arb.) 169 Others strained themselues to giue the Greeke wordes Latin names, and yet nothing so apt and fitty. 1746Exmoor Scolding 73 Thy buzzom Chucks are pretty vittee. Ibid. 569 Tha stewarliest and vittiest Wanch that comath on tha Stones o' Moulton. a1800Ballad in Edin. Mag. Oct. (1818) 328 The fittie fairies liftit her. 1880W. Cornw. Gloss., ‘Your dress isn't looking fitty.’
Hence ˈfittily adv.; ˈfittiness; ˈfittyways, -wise adv., properly.
1746Exmoor Scolding 209 Tha hast..no Vittiness in enny keendest Theng. 1810Devon & Cornw. Voc. in Monthly Mag. XXIX. 435 That coat is fittily made. 1880W. Cornw. Gloss., ‘Do behave fitty-ways.’ 1893Couch Delectable Duchy 50 We'm going to do the thing fittywise.
▪ II. ˈfitty, a.2
[f. fit n.2 + -y1.]
Subject to fits.
1811E. Nares Thinks I II. 161 They..turned out so sickly and fitty that there was no rearing them anyhow. |