wittle

English

Etymology

Childish mispronunciation of little.

Adjective

wittle (comparative wittler, superlative wittlest)

1. (childish, nonstandard) Little.
   • 2004, Woody Leonhard, Windows XP all-in-one desk reference for dummies:

     Working with windows (that's "windows" with a wittle w)

   • 2005, Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford, Preparing teachers for a changing world:

     Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.

   • 2006, Sigrid Nunez, The last of her kind:

     ...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle-bitty baby...

   • 2007, Kristen Sauder, Trading Panic for Peace:

     With every step she repeated the same phrase, "I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help."

Synonyms

• ickle

Translations

babytalk for little

• Finnish: piäni (fi)

Verb

wittle

1. Misspelling of whittle.