Whit

Definition: Whit

Whit

Noun

1. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "whit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Whit \Whit\, noun. [from Old English expression wight, wiht, Anglo-Saxon wiht creature, thing. See Wight, and compare to Aught, Naught.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Whit

Amusement

Holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras,mi-careme, feria, fiesta.

Completeness

Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be.

Indifference

Verb: be indifferent; Adjective: stand neuter; take no interest in; (insensibility); have no desire for;have no taste for, have no relish for; not care for; care nothing for, care nothing about; not care a straw about, not care a fig for, not care a whit about; (unimportance); not mind.

Negation

Adverb: no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less. no ways, no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand.

Zero

Adjective: not one, not a one, not any, nary a one;not a, never a; not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot; not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.

Crosswords: Whit

The burdens of the world on my back lightens the world not one whit, while removing them greatly decreases my specific gravity. (references; author: unknown)

Whit & Charm (1994)

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Books

• Adventures In Odyssey Cassettes #27: The Search For Whit [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• Doomed Bourgeois in Love : Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman (reference)

• Every Whit Whole: The Adventure of Spiritual Healing (reference)

• Mouse House/5 Easy-To-Build Homes for Your Computer Mouse: Five Easy-To-Build Homes Where a Computer Muse Can Reside in Style-The Taj Mahal, the whit (reference)

• The Middle Classes in Middle-Sized Cities: The Stratification and Political Position of Small Business and Whit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Volume. 2-Easter Whit Sunday Corp [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Staff Sgt. Patricia Logue, a precision guided munitions crew chief with the 39th Maintenance Squadron, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, demonstrates to Secretary of the Air Force Whit Peters how an electromagnetic interference ring works on an air-to-ground mis.

Alice Pitsenbarger observes at right as her husband, William F. Pitsenbarger, center, accepts the Medal of Honor on behalf of his son, Airman 1st Class William F. Pitsenbarger, from Secretary of the Air Force Whit Peters, during a ceremony Dec. 8 at the U.

Four F-15 Eagles from the 18th Wing, Kadena Air Base, Japan, fly next to Mt. Fuji, Japan, Nov. 22. Flying in the F-15D (foreground) is Secretary of the Air Force Whit Peters and pilot Capt. Joel Carey, 44th Fighter Squadron. (P.; photo by Master Sgt. Marvin K..

Capt. Joel Carey, 44th Fighter Squadron, provides a pre-flight briefing to Secretary of the Air Force Whit Peters prior to their F-15 Eagle flight to Kadena Air Base, Japan, Nov. 22. Peters is touring bases in the Pacific. (P.; photo by Master Sgt. Marvin K..

Secretary of the Air Force Whit Peters receives the Air Force Order of the Sword from Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Jim Finch and Chief Master Sgt. James Mazza at an induction ceremony held Dec. 16 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The Order of the Swor.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He had not forgotten a whit of their cowardice and cruelty but the memory of it called forth no anger from him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "whit": every whit ♦ i don't care a whit ♦ no whit ♦ not a whit ♦ not care a whit about ♦ whit leather ♦ whit monday ♦ whit sunday. Additional references.

Beginning with "whit": whit-lock, Whit-Tuesday.

Ending with "whit": tu-whit.

Containing "whit": to-whit-too-whoo, tu-whit-tu-whoo.

Albanian

rrëshajat, grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch), çikël (fleck), çikë (atom, bit, doit, drachm, dram, dribblet, drop, hoot, jot, near, scrap, tithe, tittle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقدار ضئيل جدا, ‏مقدار ضئيل (crumb, dab, dash, dribble, element, glimmer, hint, mouthful, nip, peanut, smack, trace, trifle), ‏مثقال ضئيل, ‏مثقال ذرة (jot, molecule). (various references)

Bulgarian 

частица (atom, bit, fleck, fraction, molecule, particle, sippet, tittle, vestige). (various references)

Czech

zblo (jot), troška (atom, dab, mite, touch, trace), teèka (Dot, full stop, period, point, spot, stop), kousek (bit, cut, inchmeal, jot, mammock, nibble, parcel, part, patch, piece, scrap, shred, wedge), drobet, špetka (dash, modicum, nip, sprinkling, taste, trace, trifle). (various references)

Danish

R24/25 (toxic in contact whit skin and if swallowed), pinsedag (Whit Monday), giftig ved hudkontakt og ved indtagelse (toxic in contact whit skin and if swallowed, toxic in contact with skin and if swallowed). (various references)

Dutch

vergiftig bij aanraking met de huid en bij opname door de mond (toxic in contact whit skin and if swallowed, toxic in contact with skin and if swallowed), Tweede Pinksterdag (Whit Monday), R24-25 (toxic in contact whit skin and if swallowed), R2425 (toxic in contact whit skin and if swallowed), R24/25 (toxic in contact whit skin and if swallowed), Pinkstermaandag (Whit Monday), maandag na Pinksteren (Whit Monday). (various references)

Farsi 

هیچ (Any, Ever, Naught, Never, Nil, Nix, None, Nothing, Nought, Nowise, Zero), تکه (Bit, Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Loaf, Lot, Lump, Morsel, Nub, Pane, Patch, Portion, Scrap, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Smidgen), ذره (Ace, Bit, Corpuscle, Dust, Grain, Iota, Jot, Nip, Particle, Scruple, Shred, Speck, Vestige), خرده (Bit, Bittock, Crumb, Debris, Fragment, Glimmer, Grain, Jot, Nip, Particle, Shred, Small, Vestige, Weeny), اندک (Lean, Light, Little, Low, Margin, Modicum, Paucity, Pinch, Scant, Scantling, Scarce, Scrimp, Scruple, Skimpy, Slight), ابدا (Never, No, None, Nothing, Nowise, Whatsoever). (various references)

Finnish

helluntaipäivä (Whit Sunday), ei hitustakaan (not a bit, not a whit). (various references)

French

grain, brin. (various references)

German

kleinster Teil, bißchen (a little, dab). (various references)

Greek 

στιγμή (instant, jiffy, moment, stop, trice), μόριο (corpuscle, molecule, particle), ελάχιστο τί. (various references)

Hebrew 

שמץ (grain, iota, jot, mite, modicum, morsel, odor, odour, particle, pinch, shade, shred, soupcon, sprinkling, suspicion, syllable, tincture, trace). (various references)

Hungarian

darabka (bit, clipping, dab, fleck, fritter, knob, morsel, pat, patch, scrap, slip, smidgen, snippet, speck, tithe, tittle). (various references)

Italian

un pochino, di pentecoste. (various references)

Manx

Jelune Kingeesh (Whit Monday), Doonaght Kingeesh (Day of Pentecost, Whit Sunday). (various references)

Pig Latin

itwhay.(various references)

Portuguese

quantidade mínima (blob, droplet, shadow, speck, trace), quantidade ínfima (blob, droplet, scintilla), partícula (aught, blob, droplet, fragment, item, particle, speck). (various references)

Romanian

pic (a wee bit, atom, bead, bit, crumb, dash, drop, jot, pennyworth, pick, spark, spot, sprinkle, touch), fãrâmã (atom, bit, chip, crumb, element, fleck, fragment, morsel, particle, scrap, smithereens, speck), cirip-cirip, bucãţicã (bit, knob, morsel, mouthful, rap, speckle). (various references)

Russian 

йота (iota, jot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trunka (bit, crumb, dollop, grain, scintilla, shred, sprinkling), čestica (mote, particle, pinpoint). (various references)

Spanish

pizca (dash, jot, mite, ounce, particle, pennyworth, pinch, scrap, shade, shadow, shred, soupcon, sprinkle, thought, touch, trace, trifle). (various references)

Swedish

dugg (atom, jot). (various references)

Turkish

zerre (atom, corpuscle, corpuscule, crumb, grain, granule, iota, jot, mite, molecule, monad, mote, particle, rap, Ray, scintilla, shadow, sparklet, speck, tittle, touch, vestige). (various references)

Ukrainian

що стосується свята трійці, крихта (grain, modicum, ounce, scruple, tithe). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tuyệt đối không, no whit$ chẳng tí nào, $not a whit. (various references)

pili, pilis, pilo, piloque, pilorum, pilos, pilus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "whit": white, whitebait, whitebaits, whitebeard, whitebeards, whiteboard, whiteboards, whitecap, whitecaps, whited, whiteface, whitefaces, whitefish, whitefishes, whiteflies, whitefly, whitehead, whiteheads, whitely, whiten, whitened, whitener, whiteners, whiteness, whitenesses, whitening, whitenings, whitens, whiteout, whiteouts, whiter, whites, whitesmith, whitesmiths, whitest, whitetail, whitetails, whitethroat, whitethroats, whitewall, whitewalls, whitewash, whitewashed, whitewasher, whitewashers, whitewashes, whitewashing, whitewashings, whitewing, whitewings, whitewood. (additional references)

Words containing "whit": antiwhite, bobwhite, bobwhites, lintwhite, lintwhites, nonwhite, nonwhites, nowhither, somewhither, unwhite. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Whit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ghit, hwet, Hwi, Hwita, Khit, ohit, phit, whalt, whant, whart, whaty, wheet, wheit, whent, whert, wheth, whett, whi, whic, whid, whie, whif, whift, whij, whil, whilt, Whipt, whiq, whith, whits, whitty, whity, whix, whoit, wholt, whut, whzt, wih, wiht, woit, wxit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: with.

-1 letter: hit, wit.

-2 letters: hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: swith, whipt, whist, white, whits, whity, width, wight, witch, withe, withy.

+2 letters: switch, swithe, twitch, weight, whilst, whisht, whists, whited, whiten, whiter, whites, whitey, widths, wights, witchy, withal, withed, wither, withes, within, wraith, wright, writhe.

+3 letters: bewitch, fitchew, howbeit, outwish, swither, swithly, thawing, thewier, townish, trishaw, twitchy, unwhite, weights, weighty, wettish, whatsis, whatsit, whiffet, whippet, whishts, whisted, whistle, whitely, whitens, whitest, whiteys, whither, whitier, whities, whiting, whitish, whitlow, whitter, whittle, witched, witches, withers, withier, withies, withing, withins, without, wraiths, wrights, writhed, writhen, writher, writhes.