mitey

1. Of or pertaining to mites.
2. Infested with mites.

   Both were inoculated with 1 gm. of very mitey flour placed at the bottom of the bottle.

   1929, The Industrial Chemist, volume 5, page 244

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   Mr. Robert Farquhar paid the town's people in old mitey meal for his soldiers entertainment, who had continued there a long time.

   1830, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland: From 1624 — 1645, page 268

   A few specimens transferred from a mitey cheese to an old cheese not mitey, will soon colonize it thoroughly.

   1878, Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, E. B. Reed, The Canadian entomologist, volumes 10-12, page 239

1. not comparablepronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of mighty.

   "I knowed your great-grandpaw mitey well, son, and your grandpaw and your own daddy.[…]"

   1954, Charles Rice McDowell, The Iron Baby Angel, page 11

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   He ain' got nuttin tall cep'n some mitey good nabors dat come by fer him ever day an' caird him up to lay him down by de back do' er dat air rich man, dat air Mr. Dives.

   1909, Bruce M. Russett, John R. Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, volume 10, page 238

   They treats us mitey well and wants Amerikens to cum and settle among em.[…]They all talks so mitey funney.

   1974, William Curtis Nunn, Escape from Reconstruction, page 67

plural miteys

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of matey.

   Above him a frowsy head looked out and a sleepy voice with a cockney accent said, "Hallo, mitey," and vanished.

   1926, Howard Pease, The Tattooed Man, page 26