Meaning

2 senses
  1. Fragmented.

  2. Very small, tiny.

    1995, J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), Glory in Death, 2000, unnumbered page, He never leaves anything out, not the tiniest memo, the bitsiest note.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout.

    deDas kleine Spinnchen kletterte das Regenrohr empor.

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  2. The itsy-bitsy spider went up the water spout.

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Origin

From bits + -y.

From bits + -y.

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Forms

bitsier, bitsiest
Comparativebitsier Lesson
Superlativebitsiest Lesson

regular

Word family

1 related words
Deriveditsy-bitsy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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