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English
Noun
jitty (plural jitties)
- (colloquial, Midlands) Alternative spelling of gitty (“type of passageway”)
2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 97:You could still see some of the cobbles of the jitty mouth, where it had run behind the terrace down on Andrew's Road, but it was pretty much all gone.
Usage notes
The term is used in the English Midlands and also in mining communities in the south-east, notably Aylesham. Derived from Low German "twiete" (alley), historic usage in Sussex as "twitten".
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