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titchy

/ ˈtɪtʃɪ /

adjective

  1. slang.
    very small; tiny
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of titchy1

C20: from tich or titch a small person, from Little Tich, the stage name of Harry Relph (1867–1928), English actor noted for his small stature
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Example Sentences

Hortensia paused to observe the effect these remarks were having on the two titchy ones.

‘You may think you is eight,’ the BFG said, ‘but you has only spent four years of your life with your little eyes open. You is only four and please stop higgling me. Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.’

‘That was only one titchy little bite,’ the BFG said.

‘The first titchy bobsticle you meet and you begin shouting you is biffsquiggled.’

‘A lot more. But I cannot be squibbling the whole gropefluncking dream on a titchy bit of paper. Of course there is more.’

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