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▪ I. ˈnitty, n. Naut. slang.
[Etym. obscure.]
A racket, disturbance.
1830Marryat King's Own xxvi, I never seed a ship's company in such a farmant, or such a nitty kicked up 'tween decks, in my life. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 498 Nitty, a troublesome noise; a squabble.
▪ II. nitty, a. Now rare.|ˈnɪtɪ|
[f. nit n.1 + -y1.]
1. Full of, abounding or infested with, nits.
1570Levins Manip. 112/5 Nitty, culicosus. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier (1871) 36 As if he meant to give a warning to all the lice in his nitty locks. 1600Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood v. 72 Goodly curld lockes; but surely tis great pitty, For want of kembing, they are beastly nitty. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 30 If..the poor Presbyter is left so needie, nittie, bare, and wors then beggerlie. 1671Marten Voy. Spitzbergen iii. xi. in Acc. Sev. Voy. ii. (1694) 69 Here and there it hath some small knobs like nitty Hair. 1712S. Centlivre Perplex. Lovers iii. iii, A nitty Son of a Whore, who does he call lousy? 1797Brydges Homer Travestie II. 63 As easily I can ye souse As nitty tailors crack a louse.
transf.1622Massinger & Dekker Virg. Mart. iii. iii, Thy hungry tongue bit off these shreds of complaints, to patch up the elbows of thy nitty eloquence. 1666J. Sergeant Lett. Thanks 31, I may not trouble my Reader often with such nitty Exceptions with which your Book abounds.
†b. Used jocularly. (Cf. nit n.1 1.) Obs.—1
1598Marston Pygmal., Sat. iii. 148 O dapper, rare, compleat, sweet nittie youth!
†2. (Cf. nittiness.) Obs. rare—1.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. vi. 102 Before dinner again, refresh your Lamp..with the generous oyle of Sack, nitty, roapy, and razy. |