Meaning

3 senses
  1. A window pane

  2. (UK, dialectal, uncountable)A little, bit.

  3. (UK, dialectal)The act of waiting; a wait.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. When the choice is between shit and shit lite, shit usually wins.

  2. You were the one who ignited this fire that just needed to be let out and to be lite up.

Origin

Variation of light (in the sense of lacking weight, substance, etc.) From Middle English

Variation of light (in the sense of lacking weight, substance, etc.)

From Middle English lit, lut (“little”), from Old English lȳt.

From Middle English liten, from Old Norse hlíta (“to rely on, trust, abide by”). Cognate with Icelandic hlíta (“to comply”), Swedish lita (“to trust, rely on, depend on, confide in”), Danish lide (“to trust”).

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Forms

plural: lites
Singularlite
Plurallites

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedpenlite

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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