a mite
adv/ə ˈmaɪt/US/ə ˈmʌɪt/CA
Etymology
From a + mite (“minute arachnid of the order Acarina; anything very small, a minute object, a very little quantity or particle”).
Definitions
To a small extent
To a small extent; in a small amount; rather.
- "I hope Mary has been the best of girls?" / "The bestest little girl, Sir—a mite too lively, perhaps, especially when she hears you're coming to see her,[…].["]
- "Silas, now," Esther Whitley had said, "would be a good one for you, Hannah. He's a mite on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before. He knows the ways of a woman better'n some."
- Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for a mite. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA