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bitty, a.|ˈbɪtɪ|
[f. bit n.2 + -y1.]
1. Made up of little bits (used disparagingly); consisting of (too many) unrelated parts; scrappy.
1892Idler May 484 It is an awful thing to be shut up for a week with all the ‘bitty’ papers of the day. c1909in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothes (1952) iii. 91 The bitty dress is entirely relegated to the mercantile mind. 1924N. Coward Rat Trap ii. p. 30 She doesn't dress smartly enough—too bitty. 1928B.B.C. Handbk. 71/2 At the risk of the programme being called ‘bitty’ by sections of the audience with specially marked and developed tastes—it is necessary to compound the programmes..of diverse elements. 1952E. R. Janes Flower Garden 31 Unless there is enough width, a double path..gives a bitty appearance. 1963Times 18 May 5/7 The costumes are gaudier..and the whole thing is rather bitty.
2. Covered with or containing bits or scraps (of a material).
1902Little Folks Jan. 58/2 ‘Oh Ted; you are bitty!’ she remarked..while she..picked off the shavings that clung to his clothes. 1953Gloss. Paint Terms (B.S.I.) 5 Bitty, a description applied to paints or varnishes containing bits of skin or flocculated material which project above the surface when the paint or varnish is applied.
3. = bitsy a. U.S. colloq.
1905Dialect Notes III. 87 They was little-bitty fellers. 1908Ibid. 291. 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, My Lovely x. 78 That toy... It's just a little bitty gun, a butterfly gun.
So ˈbittiness, the state of being bitty, scrappiness.
1950M. Peake Gormenghast 182 Unknown to her the ‘bittiness’ that resulted gave to the salon a certain informality far from her intentions. 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vii. 179 Little tablets of curious information are scattered throughout... This is bittiness run riot. |