Meaning of itsy-bitsy in English:

adjective

• Very small; tiny.

  ‘itsy-bitsy candles that couldn't light the path of an ant’

  More example sentences

  • ‘There is one minor, tiny, itsy-bitsy little thing that I didn't like.’
  • ‘In my infinite naivety and itsy-bitsy experience, I like squirrels.’
  • ‘The woman with the itsy-bitsy tummy growing an itsy-bitsy little baby.’
  • ‘With Claire standing, facing her mom, and me sitting, and in an itty-bitty, teeny-weeny kids-size chair, my arm started to get all strained.’
  • ‘Speaker size is a big factor in sound quality, and LCDs dwarf the itty-bitty speakers in laptops.’
  • ‘Next to this small area was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bathroom.’
  • ‘This itsy-bitsy cutie is among the tiniest of tomatoes.’
  • ‘I mean, here was this guy who wanted to run this great big river in these itty-bitty boats that broke every time they hit a rock.’
  • ‘Other containers house giant cockroaches and itty-bitty arachnid hatchlings, a few months old and smaller than a pinky nail.’
  • ‘The youngest is too small to do flips, but she's constantly entertaining us with her itty-bitty helium voice and 40-yr old attitude.’
  • ‘Jim Bakker walks in with his little itty-bitty shorts.’
  • ‘I was afraid I might crush her itty-bitty body just by standing near her, through sheer gravitational force alone.’
  • ‘Jessica was young, but she still remembers seeing his itty-bitty hands and his itty-bitty feet and feeling a sense of awe.’
  • ‘Miller, too, was in that issue - with another itty-bitty alleged malfeasance.’
  • ‘Do you like sexy, itty-bitty, see-through and see-all silky lingerie?’
  • ‘An itty-bitty Howard and Blair and a supposedly statesman-like Kennedy looking like he's carved into Mount Rushmore.’
  • ‘Still, even though their itty-bitty brains have doubts, they don't really want to know the truth.’
  • ‘They're scrunched into nine pages, which means lots of itty-bitty type and eyeball fatigue.’
  • ‘You'll be surprised how far that one itsy-bitsy syllable can go.’
  • ‘How does Santa's huge body fit through those itsy-bitsy chimneys?’

  Synonyms

  minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, Lilliputian