See wittle on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Childish mispronunciation of little.",
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"ref": "2004, Woody Leonhard, Windows XP all-in-one desk reference for dummies:",
"text": "Working with windows (that's \"windows\" with a wittle w)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford, Preparing teachers for a changing world:",
"text": "Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Sigrid Nunez, The last of her kind:",
"text": "...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle-bitty baby...",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Kristen Sauder, Trading Panic for Peace:",
"text": "With every step she repeated the same phrase, \"I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Little."
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"(childish, nonstandard) Little."
],
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"word": "ickle"
}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "babytalk for little",
"word": "piäni"
}
]
}
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"etymology_text": "Childish mispronunciation of little.",
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"ref": "2004, Woody Leonhard, Windows XP all-in-one desk reference for dummies:",
"text": "Working with windows (that's \"windows\" with a wittle w)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford, Preparing teachers for a changing world:",
"text": "Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2006, Sigrid Nunez, The last of her kind:",
"text": "...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle-bitty baby...",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Kristen Sauder, Trading Panic for Peace:",
"text": "With every step she repeated the same phrase, \"I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help.\"",
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"word": "ickle"
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"sense": "babytalk for little",
"word": "piäni"
}
],
"word": "wittle"
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}
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