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A bit   /bɪt/   Listen
A bit

adverb
1.
To a small degree; somewhat.  Synonyms: a little, a trifle.  "Felt a little better" , "A trifle smaller"






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"A bit" Quotes from Famous Books



... is getting used to that sort of thing, and they won't mind it a bit. Besides, they will be so lost in admiration of their cousin's name on the cover that they will think of nothing else. What did you make out of her? Is she as innocent as ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter

... thanks to our victory, he might have got a good pile of crowns together if he had simply changed the old mechanism of his wheel which he leaves rotting under the moss. And better still, I should like to see a good engine there, and a bit of a light railway line connecting the mill with ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... "Stop a bit," said the miller, "that printer is the son of the old skinflint who farms his own land at Marsac, ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... documents in the vaults. I'll have Peyton's evidence. I rather fancy Captain Lee's biography will interest that dame in Paris. I will prospect my friend Hardin's surroundings. He must have some devil to do his dirty work. I will do a bit of 'coyote work' myself. It's a case of ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

... if you please," said a large, white China Cat, who had just finished washing a few specks of dirt off her shiny coat with her red tongue. "I could enjoy a bit of fish ...
— The Story of a China Cat • Laura Lee Hope


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