tidgy

tidgy

English

Adjective

tidgy (comparative more tidgy, superlative most tidgy)

1. (Britain, dialectal) Very small; teensy.
   • 1950, Anthony West, The vintage

     […] 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...

   • 2001, Max Hennessy, The Lion at Sea

     'It's only a tidgy one,' he said. 'Nobody in Huguenot seems very impressed.'

   • 2001, Eric Malpass, At the Height of the Moon

     '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.

   • 2008, Jim Cartwright, Supermarket supermodel

     I 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.