Flitty vs Fitty - What's the difference?
flitty | fitty |
(archaic) unstable, fluttering
Ostentatiously effeminate
* {{quote-news, year=1995, date=September 8, author=Peter Margasak, title=Edwyn Collins, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1999, date=December 24, author=Albert Williams, title=Lean and Mean, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=In each scenario, the mother worries whether her flitty son (Garcia) will ever marry. " }}
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=February 23, author=Albert Williams, title=Springtime for Mel Brooks, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Some observers may be taken aback by Brooks's treatment of homosexuality: while the subject was only a side theme in the movie, here it's placed front and center in the character of Roger and his flitty "common-law assistant," Carmen Ghia. }}
(nonstandard, eye dialect) fifty
As an adjective flitty
is (archaic) unstable, fluttering.As a numeral fitty is
(nonstandard|eye dialect) fifty.flitty
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(ostentatiously homosexual)References
*fitty
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(head)- "I need 'bout three fitty " ($3.50)
