Meanings
comparative more tidgy · superlative most tidgy
- UKdialectalVery small; teensy.
'It's only a tidgy one,' he said. 'Nobody in Huguenot seems very impressed.'
2001, Max Hennessy, The Lion at Sea3 more examples
[…] all we could scrape up was jobs selling things for tidgy little firms that weren't big enough to be mopped up into any of the nationalisation schemes...
1950, Anthony West, The vintage'She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.' 'They're not then.' Emma was getting heated. 'They're– ' 'Emma!' said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.
2001, Eric Malpass, At the Height of the MoonI was going to let him have one in the tidgy triangle below the throat like Suze taught me, but everything stopped at the sound of Paulie retching.
2008, Jim Cartwright, Supermarket supermodel
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