little : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb to a small degree; somewhat
  a bit; a trifle.
  
  • it's a bit warm
  • felt a little better
  • a trifle smaller

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• noun a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
  Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer's Last Stand; Battle of Little Bighorn.
  

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• noun a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
  Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer's Last Stand; Battle of Little Bighorn.
  

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• by slow degrees; piecemeal; gradually.

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• noun a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling
  

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Do"-lit`tle noun

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1. One who performs little though professing much. Colloq.

   Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

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• adverb to any extent at all
  in the least.
  
  • are you in the least interested?

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• noun small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions
  dovekie; Plautus alle.
  

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• noun annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America
  Hordeum pusillum.
  

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• noun a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star
  Ursa Minor.
  

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• noun a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
  Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River.
  
• noun a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
  Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer's Last Stand; Battle of Little Bighorn.
  

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• noun a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
  Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River.
  

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• noun tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food
  Monomorium minimum.
  

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• noun small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere
  Egretta caerulea.
  

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• noun a younger brother
  
  • my little brother just had his 50th birthday

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• noun the small common North American bat; widely distributed
  Myotis leucifugus; little brown bat.
  

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• noun the small common North American bat; widely distributed
  Myotis leucifugus; little brown bat.
  

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• adverb a little bit at a time
  in stages; bit by bit; piecemeal.
  
  • the research structure has developed piecemeal
• adverb by a short distance
  by small degrees; by inches.
  
  • they moved it by inches

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• . (Zoöl.) See Chief hare.

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• noun North American pika
  Ochotona princeps.
  

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• noun any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella
  spikemoss; spike moss.
  

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• noun of northern Europe and America; resembling a miniature fir
  Lycopodium selago; mountain clubmoss; fir clubmoss.
  

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• noun French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
  Bonaparte; Napoleon I; Napoleon; Napoleon Bonaparte.
  

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• noun a dictionary that is small enough to carry in your pocket
  pocket dictionary.
  

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• noun a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
  Dipper.
  

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• noun a constellation to the east of Orion; contains Procyon
  Canis Minor.
  

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• noun fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil
  black-stem spleenwort; black-stemmed spleenwort.
  

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• noun Old World egret
  Egretta garzetta.
  

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• noun the finger farthest from the thumb
  pinky; pinkie.
  

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• the fourth and smallest finger of the hand.

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• noun United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)
  Stephen Arnold Douglas; Stephen A. Douglas; Douglas.
  

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• noun a youthful female person
  girl; female child.
  
  • the baby was a girl
  • the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle

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• (Eng. Universities), a public examination about the middle of the course, which as less strict and important than the final one; called also smalls. Cf. Great go, under Great. Thackeray.

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• noun subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas
  Zinnia grandiflora.
  

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• noun small European grebe
  Podiceps ruficollis; dabchick.
  

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• noun the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours
  hour hand.
  

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• noun a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
  Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River.
  

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• (R. C. Ch.), the offices of prime, tierce, sext, and nones. Vespers and compline are sometimes included.

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• noun the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
  tetrad; quaternity; quadruplet; foursome; IV; four; quaternion; quatern; quaternary; quartet; 4.
  

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• noun legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength
  

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• noun a commercially sponsored baseball league for players between 8 and 12 years of age
  

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• noun a player between 8 and 12 years of age who is a member of a little-league team
  

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• noun an excessively polite and well-dressed boy
  Fauntleroy.
  

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• noun a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota
  Little Missouri.
  

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• noun a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota
  Little Missouri.
  

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• noun United States tennis player who was the first woman to win the United States, British, French, and Australian championships in the same year (1953) (1934-1969)
  Connolly; Maureen Catherine Connolly.
  

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• noun a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office
  

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• young children.

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• noun small European owl
  Athene noctua.
  

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• noun the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
  quintet; quintuplet; quint; cinque; fivesome; 5; Phoebe; V; five; fin; pentad.
  

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• noun rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
  russet scab; stem canker; rosette.
  

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• noun a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother
  

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• noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state
  RI; Rhode Island; Ocean State.
  

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• noun the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River
  capital of Arkansas.
  

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• noun a river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa
  

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• noun a younger sister
  

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• noun most plentiful skate in North American inshore waters in summer; to 21 inches
  Raja erinacea.
  

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• noun winning all but one of the tricks in a hand of bridge
  small slam.
  

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• noun French cabaret singer (1915-1963)
  Edith Piaf; Piaf; Edith Giovanna Gassion.
  

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• noun small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico
  spotted skunk; Spilogale putorius.
  

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• noun a very troublesome child
  terror; holy terror; brat.
  

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• noun a small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups
  little theater.
  

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• noun a small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups
  little theater.
  

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• noun the fifth smallest outermost toe
  

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• noun a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River
  Little Wabash.
  

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• noun a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River
  Little Wabash.
  

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Lit"tle-ease` noun

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1. An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.Eng. Latimer.

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• noun similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowers
  Gutierrezia microcephala.
  

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• adjective satellite unknown to most people
  

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• noun Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
  rusty rig; Botany Bay fig; Port Jackson fig; Ficus rubiginosa.
  

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• noun a team that plays in a little league
  

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• noun militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
  Malcolm X.
  

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• noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  plenty; great deal; pot; sight; flock; mint; slew; mountain; deal; wad; muckle; pile; lot; mickle; raft; passel; hatful; mess; spate; heap; peck; stack; good deal; batch; tidy sum; mass.
  
  • a batch of letters
  • a deal of trouble
  • a lot of money
  • he made a mint on the stock market
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
  • it must have cost plenty
  • a slew of journalists
  • a wad of money

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• . (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily.

Webster 1913

• to care much, or little, for.

Webster 1913