英和和英

語源

bits +‎ -y

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪtsi/

形容詞

bitsy (comparative bitsier, superlative bitsiest)

1. Fragmented.
2. Very small, tiny.
   • 1994, Josette Dermody Wingo, Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves, 2000 page 25,

     The models are all made to scale — twelve inches for our big new battle wagons and the carriers; the older battleships and the others, cruisers, destroyers, get littler and littler, down to the bitsiest ones.

   • 1995, J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), Glory in Death, 2000, unnumbered page,

     He never leaves anything out, not the tiniest memo, the bitsiest note.

   • 2001, Eugene Cunningham, Gun Bulldogger‎^[1], page 34:

     “It won′t be making the bitsiest bit of difference, Fielder. […] ”

派生語

• itsy-bitsy/itsy bitsy