Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nittie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nit-tie
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Obsolete spelling of nitty.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Rich people haue the world at will, / Trades fade, but Lawiers flourish still, / Iacke would be married unto Gyll; / but care will kill a Cat. / Are you there, Sirrah, with your beares? / A Barbers shop with the nittie haires, / Doll, Phillis hath lost both her eares / for coozning."
"Next night, therefore, these nittie haxters intend with strong hand to breake his glass-window's, or at dead-time of night to pull downe his signe: and so ends their faire quarrel."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

nittier (comparative) more nittie (comparative) nittiest (superlative) most nittie (superlative)

Questions

What does nittie mean?: Obsolete spelling of nitty.

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