jitty

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A form of gitty — A narrow pedestrian passageway in a residential area, between high brick walls, wooden fences, hedges, etc.

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nounjitty (plural jitties)

plural jitties

  1. MidlandsalternativecolloquialAlternative spelling of gitty (“type of passageway”).

    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.

    2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 97

    Synonyms: alley

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