leetle

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leetle (comparative leetler, superlative leetlest)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of little.
    • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
      "Thanksgiving eve," he repeated. "We was to have a leetle celebration Thanksgiving eve." And he added somewhat anxiously: "You ain't forgot about that, Bill? It's an awful long time since we had a drink."
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 126:
      'You speak English? he added in that language. 'I speak a leetle, yes.' Her accent was charming.
    • 1953 July, George O. Smith, Space Science Fiction, page 94:
      I'll bet a hat that Isaac Asimov could knock us all for a row of uranium cans if he wrote about something a leetle more familiar to us poor planet-bound humans. This massive sweep of millions of light years and thousands of centuries away was hot stuff fifteen years ago. Isaac, please come home, all is forgiven.

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