pittie
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
pittie
Noun edit
pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)
Etymology 2 edit
pit (“pit bull terrier”) + -ie
Noun edit
pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)
- (informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.
- 2012, Marta Acosta, Dark Companion, page 33:
- I was used to slammed doors, rumbling buses, shouting, snarling pitties, police sirens, […]
- 2014, Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, page 247:
- Maybe he'd want a signal from me that he should rush to the carrier and retrieve a pittie on his own— a small one, alive, our new class pet.
- 2015 August, Sara Ernest, “Love in Rescue”, in Quorum, page 6:
- Lori and I rescued a pittie from a local rescue organization and our lives have never been the same.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pittie.
Synonyms edit
- pibble (informal), pit (slang), pit bull, shitbull (pejorative), velvet hippo (slang)