p'tit

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French

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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p’tit (feminine p’tite, masculine plural p’tits, feminine plural p’tites)

  1. (colloquial) Eye dialect spelling of petit.
  2. (colloquial) Contraction of petit
  3. (colloquial) Syncopic form of petit

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Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French petit.

Adjective

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p'tit m

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) small
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[1], page 512:
      A p'tit pourche grosse pânais.
      The little pig gets the big parsnip.

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Picard

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Etymology

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From Old French petit.

Adjective

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p'tit m (feminine singular p'tite, masculine plural p'tits, feminine plural p'tites)

  1. small