unlittle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English unlitel, unnlitell, from Old English unlȳtel, unlytel (“not little, large, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlutil (“not little”), equivalent to un- + little. Cognate with Old High German unluzzil (“excessive, inordinate”), Old Norse úlítill (“not little”).
Adjective
[edit]unlittle (comparative more unlittle, superlative most unlittle)
- Not little.
- 1997, Robert Reid, Architects of the Web, page 249:
- And so their little private lists of links became a rather unlittle shared list of links which they christened (gotta call it something) “Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web.”
- 2020, Matthew S. Cox, The Cursed Codex:
- “And you're unlittle,” chimed Tira. “Very unlittle.”
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