wittle

English

Etymology

Childish mispronunciation of little.

Adjective

wittle (comparative wittler, superlative wittlest)

  1. (childish, nonstandard) Little.
    • 2004, Woody Leonhard, Windows XP all-in-one desk reference for dummies:
      Working with windows (that's "windows" with a wittle w)
    • 2005, Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford, Preparing teachers for a changing world:
      Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.
    • 2006, Sigrid Nunez, The last of her kind:
      ...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle-bitty baby...
    • 2007, Kristen Sauder, Trading Panic for Peace:
      With every step she repeated the same phrase, "I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help."

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wittle

  1. Misspelling of whittle.
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