whit
see also: Whit
Pronunciation
Whit
Noun
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see also: Whit
Pronunciation
- enPR wĭt, IPA: /wɪt/, /ʍɪt/
whit (plural whits)
- The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
- He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.
- 1602: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2
- Not a whit.
- 1917, Incident by Countee Cullen
- Now I was eight and very small, \ And he was no whit bigger \ And so I smiled, but he poked out \ His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'
- (smallest part imaginable) bit, iota, jot, scrap
- See also Thesaurus:modicum.
- French: once
- Russian: йо́та
- Eye dialect spelling of with#English|with.
Whit
Noun
whit (plural whits)
- The season of Whitsuntide.
- (obsolete, thieves) Newgate Prison in London, England.
, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman - A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."
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