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English : topographic name from Old English l̄tel ‘small’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
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English : nickname from Middle English littel ‘small’ + Middle English, Old French page ‘young servant’ (see Page).
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English, Scottish, and Irish (chiefly northern Ireland)
English, Scottish, and Irish (chiefly northern Ireland) : variant of Little.
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English : distinguishing epithet for the smaller of two men with the same personal name (see Little).
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English : patronymic from the nickname Little.
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : topographic name from Old English l̄tel ‘small’ + ford ‘ford’, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
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English : habitational name from Great and Little Linford in Buckinghamshire or Lynford in Norfolk. The former may have Old English hlyn ‘maple’ as its first element; the latter is more likely to contain līn ‘flax’. The second element in each case is Old English ford ‘ford’.
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English : variant spelling of Little.
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English : variant spelling of Little.
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English : habitational name from any of various places, mostly in southwestern England, named in Old English as ‘small settlement’, from l̄tel ‘small’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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English : variant spelling of Kimball.English : habitational name from Great or Little Kimble in Buckinghamshire, named in Old English as ‘the royal bell’ (cynebelle), referring to the shape of a local hill.Americanized spelling of German Gimbel (see Gimble) or Kimbel.
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Jewish
Jewish : shortened form of some Ashkenazic surname such as Littman or Litwin.English : variant of Light ‘little’.Dutch and North German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ as the first element.
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English, Scottish, and Irish (chiefly northern Ireland)
English, Scottish, and Irish (chiefly northern Ireland) : variant of Little.
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English : from a pet form of the personal name Man(n) (see Mann 2), or a nickname from a diminutive of the noun man, with the sense of ‘little man’.
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English : nickname for a happy, cheerful person, from Middle English lyght, Old English lēoht ‘light’ (not dark), ‘bright’, ‘cheerful’.English : nickname for someone who was busy and active, from Middle English lyght, Old English līoht ‘light’ (not heavy), ‘nimble’, ‘quick’. The two words lēoht and līoht were originally distinct, but they were confused in English from an early period.English : nickname for a small person, from Middle English lite, Old English l̄t ‘little’, influenced by lyght as in 1 and 2.
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English : nickname for a small man, or distinguishing epithet for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, from Middle English littel, Old English l̄tel, originally a diminutive of l̄t (see Light 3).Irish : translation of Gaelic Ó Beagáin ‘descendant of Beagán’ (see Begin).Translation of French Petit and Lepetit; also used as an English form of names such as Jean-Petit ‘little John’.Translation of any of various other European name meaning ‘little’.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from Old French levre ‘hare’ (Latin lepus, genitive leporis). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of hares.English (of Norman origin) : topographic name for someone who lived in a place thickly grown with rushes, from Old English lǣfer ‘rush’, ‘reed’, ‘iris’. Compare Laver 3. Great and Little Lever in Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire) are named with this word (in a collective sense) and in some cases the surname may also be derived from these places.English (of Norman origin) : possibly from an unrecorded Middle English survival of an Old English personal name, Lēofhere, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + here ‘army’.
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English : occupational name for a washerman, Anglo-Norman French laver (an agent derivative of Old French laver ‘to wash’, Latin lavare).English : habitational name from High, Little or Magdalen Laver in Essex, named from Old English lagu ‘flood’, ‘water’ + fær ‘passage’, ‘crossing’.English : topographic name for someone living where bulrushes or irises grew, Old English lǣfer.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of several minor places so called, mostly in West Yorkshire, Littlewood in Wooldale being a well-recorded instance. They are named with Old English l̄tel ‘small’ + wudu ‘wood’.
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English : habitational name from any of various minor places named Littlefield, for example in Surrey and Berkshire, from Old English l̄tel ‘little’ + feld ‘open country’.
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Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.
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A little villa.
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To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
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An old French variety of pear, of little value.
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Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.
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To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.
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A little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.
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The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.
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A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
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Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.
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That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.
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Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
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Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
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One who performs little though professing much.
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The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.
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A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
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One of the little hours of the Breviary.
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A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
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Shaped like a little twig or rod.
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Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.