leetle

English

Adjective

leetle (comparative leetler, superlative leetlest)

  1. Eye dialect 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.

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