Wittle vs Whittle - What's the difference?
wittle | whittle |
(childish, nonstandard) Little.
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A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.
* Dryden
* Macaulay
* Betterton
(transitive, or, intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
(figurative) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
* Withals
(archaic) A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
(archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
As verbs the difference between wittle and whittle
is that wittle is misspelling of lang=en while whittle is to cut or shape wood with a knife.As an adjective wittle
is little.As a noun whittle is
a knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.wittle
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Working with windows (that's "windows" with a wittle w)
- Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.
- ...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle -bitty baby...
- 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
* ickleVerb
(head)whittle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- A butcher's whittle .
- Rude whittles .
- He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose.
Verb
(whittl)- When men are well whittled , their tongues run at random.
Derived terms
* whittle down * whittlingEtymology 2
From an (etyl) word for "white"; akin to an Icelandic word for a white bedcover.Noun
(en noun)- (Charles Kingsley)
