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单词 itsy-bitsy
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Definition of itsy-bitsy in English:

itsy-bitsy

(also itty-bitty)
adjective ɪtsɪˈbɪtsi
informal
  • Very small; tiny.

    itsy-bitsy candles that couldn't light the path of an ant
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Jim Bakker walks in with his little itty-bitty shorts.
    • How does Santa's huge body fit through those itsy-bitsy chimneys?
    • I was afraid I might crush her itty-bitty body just by standing near her, through sheer gravitational force alone.
    • You'll be surprised how far that one itsy-bitsy syllable can go.
    • Still, even though their itty-bitty brains have doubts, they don't really want to know the truth.
    • In my infinite naivety and itsy-bitsy experience, I like squirrels.
    • I mean, here was this guy who wanted to run this great big river in these itty-bitty boats that broke every time they hit a rock.
    • There is one minor, tiny, itsy-bitsy little thing that I didn't like.
    • Jessica was young, but she still remembers seeing his itty-bitty hands and his itty-bitty feet and feeling a sense of awe.
    • An itty-bitty Howard and Blair and a supposedly statesman-like Kennedy looking like he's carved into Mount Rushmore.
    • Other containers house giant cockroaches and itty-bitty arachnid hatchlings, a few months old and smaller than a pinky nail.
    • This itsy-bitsy cutie is among the tiniest of tomatoes.
    • The woman with the itsy-bitsy tummy growing an itsy-bitsy little baby.
    • Next to this small area was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bathroom.
    • Do you like sexy, itty-bitty, see-through and see-all silky lingerie?
    • With Claire standing, facing her mom, and me sitting, and in an itty-bitty, teeny-weeny kids-size chair, my arm started to get all strained.
    • Miller, too, was in that issue - with another itty-bitty alleged malfeasance.
    • The youngest is too small to do flips, but she's constantly entertaining us with her itty-bitty helium voice and 40-yr old attitude.
    • Speaker size is a big factor in sound quality, and LCDs dwarf the itty-bitty speakers in laptops.
    • They're scrunched into nine pages, which means lots of itty-bitty type and eyeball fatigue.
    Synonyms
    minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, lilliputian

Origin

1930s: from a child's form of little + bitsy (from bit1 + -sy).

Rhymes

ditzy, glitzy, Mitzi, ritzy, Uffizi
 
 
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