precious little

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Definitions

  1. Almost nothing

    Almost nothing; hardly anything.

    • Precious little thanks we got!
    • Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.
    • Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for precious little. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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