See a mite on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From a + mite (“minute arachnid of the order Acarina; anything very small, a minute object, a very little quantity or particle”).",
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"ref": "[1870], [Frederick William Robinson], “The Young Guardian”, in Owen:—A Waif (Select Library of Fiction), new edition, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (Battle-ground), page 117:",
"text": "\"I hope Mary has been the best of girls?\" / \"The bestest little girl, Sir—a mite too lively, perhaps, especially when she hears you're coming to see her,[…].[\"]",
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"ref": "1956, Janice Holt Giles, chapter 8, in Hannah Fowler, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC; republished Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1992, →ISBN, page 69:",
"text": "\"Silas, now,\" Esther Whitley had said, \"would be a good one for you, Hannah. He's a mite on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before. He knows the ways of a woman better'n some.\"",
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"ref": "1959, Frances Cavanah, Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, Chicago, Ill.: Rand McNally, →OCLC; Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance (ReadHowYouWant Classics Library), EasyRead large edition, U.S.A.: ReadHowYouWant, 2008, →ISBN, page 30:",
"text": "Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them.",
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"ref": "2018 November 29, Brian Taylor, “Brexit and sellers of fish”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2019-06-26:",
"text": "Words, words, words, bemoans Hamlet, in conversation with the garrulous but inconsequential Polonius, whom he labels a \"seller of fish\". Given that the Prince of Denmark is himself legendary for vacillation and inaction, this always seemed a mite cheeky to me.",
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"ref": "2022 October 4, Jason Zinoman, “The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "The new show’s look is a mite slicker and the comic situations are set up and executed better, including Episode 1 in which Beavis and Butt-Head mistake an escape room’s bathroom for the place they need to escape.",
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"ref": "2023 May 13, John Naughton, “A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
"text": "In those circumstances, you’d have thought someone who had just blown $36bn of his company’s money in the pursuit of a personal obsession would have been a mite apologetic, wouldn’t you?",
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"To a small extent; in a small amount; rather."
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"(informal) To a small extent; in a small amount; rather."
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"word": "a bit"
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"word": "a little"
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"word": "a little bit"
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"word": "a tad"
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"word": "a smidgen"
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"word": "a mite"
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"etymology_text": "From a + mite (“minute arachnid of the order Acarina; anything very small, a minute object, a very little quantity or particle”).",
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"text": "\"I hope Mary has been the best of girls?\" / \"The bestest little girl, Sir—a mite too lively, perhaps, especially when she hears you're coming to see her,[…].[\"]",
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"ref": "1956, Janice Holt Giles, chapter 8, in Hannah Fowler, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC; republished Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1992, →ISBN, page 69:",
"text": "\"Silas, now,\" Esther Whitley had said, \"would be a good one for you, Hannah. He's a mite on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before. He knows the ways of a woman better'n some.\"",
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"ref": "1959, Frances Cavanah, Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, Chicago, Ill.: Rand McNally, →OCLC; Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance (ReadHowYouWant Classics Library), EasyRead large edition, U.S.A.: ReadHowYouWant, 2008, →ISBN, page 30:",
"text": "Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them.",
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},
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"ref": "2018 November 29, Brian Taylor, “Brexit and sellers of fish”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2019-06-26:",
"text": "Words, words, words, bemoans Hamlet, in conversation with the garrulous but inconsequential Polonius, whom he labels a \"seller of fish\". Given that the Prince of Denmark is himself legendary for vacillation and inaction, this always seemed a mite cheeky to me.",
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},
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"ref": "2022 October 4, Jason Zinoman, “The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "The new show’s look is a mite slicker and the comic situations are set up and executed better, including Episode 1 in which Beavis and Butt-Head mistake an escape room’s bathroom for the place they need to escape.",
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},
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"ref": "2023 May 13, John Naughton, “A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
"text": "In those circumstances, you’d have thought someone who had just blown $36bn of his company’s money in the pursuit of a personal obsession would have been a mite apologetic, wouldn’t you?",
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"word": "a mite"
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