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English
Adjective
nittie (comparative nittier or more nittie, superlative nittiest or most nittie)
- Obsolete spelling of nitty..
c. 1620, An Excellent New Medley: To the Tune of the Spanish Pauin, : , →OCLC; republished as Charles Hindley, editor, The Roxburghe Ballads, volume I, London: Reeves and Turner, , 1873, →OCLC, page 79:Rich people haue the world at will, / Trades fade, but Lawiers flourish still, / Iacke would be married unto Gyll; / but care will kill a Cat. / Are you there, Sirrah, with your beares? / A Barbers shop with the nittie haires, / Doll, Phillis hath lost both her eares / for coozning.
1631, [Richard Brathwait], “A Ruffian”, in Whimzies: Or, a Nevv Cast of Characters, London: Imprinted by F K and are to be sold by Ambrose Rithirdon , →OCLC; republished as James O Halliwell, editor, The Whimzies; or A New Cast of Characters: From the Original Edition, Published in 1631, London: Printed by Thomas Richards, , 1859, →OCLC, pages 83–84:Next night, therefore, these nittie haxters intend with strong hand to breake his glass-window's, or at dead-time of night to pull downe his signe: and so ends their faire quarrel.