adjective, bit·ti·er, bit·ti·est.
- Informal. tiny; itty-bitty: a little bitty town.
- Chiefly British. containing or consisting of small bits or pieces; fragmentary.
adjective -tier or -tiest
- lacking unity; disjointed
- containing bits, sediment, etc
1892, “made of little scraps,” from bit (n.1) + -y (2). As a clipped variant of bitsy, recorded from 1905, American English.