Definition of a-little in English English dictionary
- Chicken Little
- The main character in this story, a hysterical hen, alternatively named Chicken Licken under a different title
- Chicken Little
- A children’s fable about a hen who, in the classical version, believes the sky is falling after an acorn hits her head, journeys to inform the King, and is finally eaten by Foxy Loxy. Also known by other names including The Sky is Falling
- Chicken Little
- By extension, one who panics at the slightest provocation
- Little Bighorn
- The place near the Little Bighorn River, the site of Custer's Last Stand
- Little Boy
- The nickname of the nuclear bomb dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945
- Little Christmas
- January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany
- Little Dipper
- A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Minor and includes the northern pole star Polaris
- Little Englander
- someone unaware of the world outside England
- Little Englander
- someone who advocated an end to the British Empire
- Little Englander
- a bigoted and nationalistic English person
- Little League
- an organization that sponsors and organizes baseball and softball leagues for children
- Little Red Riding Hood
- A fairy tale of many different versions, especially the ones by Charles Perrault and more recently the Brothers Grimm, about a young girl who walks though the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, which may be a werewolf in archaic versions)
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The fictional girl who is the protagonist and title character in this story
- Little Rock
- The capital and largest city of the US state of Arkansas with a population of 191,930 in the city proper and 685,488 in the metropolitan area in 2009. The Combined Metropolitan Statistical area had 862,520 people according to census estimates in 2009
- Little Russia
- The territory of the former Russian Empire inhabited by Ukrainians, approximately corresponding to modern central and eastern Ukraine
- Little Russia
- The former Imperial Russian administrative subdivisions in north central Ukraine
- Little Russian
- inhabitant of Little Russia, Ukrainian
A well-defined ethnical line is all that separates the Slovaks from the Magyars and the Little Russians.
- a little
- To a small extent or degree
The door was opened a little.
- a little
- a small amount
A little water has spilled.
- a little bird told me
- Of information which was gathered from a source not to be overtly exposed
Let's just say I know because a little bird told me.
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- the song of the yellowhammer
A little bit of bread and no cheese! cry the yellowhammers petulantly. But no one takes any notice of them.
- a little from column A and a little from column B
- Alternative form of a little from column A, a little from column B
- a little from column A, a little from column B
- A combination of two factors or reasons
Which is how I thought I knew it was going to be either really boring, or about my family, or a little from column A, a little from column B.
- and your little dog too
- A statement that not only will the person being addressed be punished but their conspirators will also
- big house, little house, back house, barn
- A style of architecture in New England, also called connected farm
- cry like a little girl
- To bawl unabashedly and pitifully
- every little helps
- Even the smallest things are helpful when towards a common goal
- great oaks from little acorns grow
- Alternative form of mighty oaks from little acorns grow
- little
- Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of)
We had very little to do.
- little
- Not much
She spoke little and listened less.
- little
- Insignificant, trivial
It's of little importance.
- little
- Small in size
This is a little table.
- little
- Younger
This is my little sister.
- little
- Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place
In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.
- little
- Very young
That's the biggest little kid I've ever seen.
- little Eichmann
- Someone who is like the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, someone who seems ordinary but does "evil"
- little Eichmann
- A zealous member of an immoral or evil entity
- little Eichmanns
- plural form of little Eichmann
- little Hitler
- An unnecessarily or pretentiously dictatorial person - a jobsworth
Editorial writers were saying last week that Egypt's Nasser was getting too big for his boots. . . . The tabloid New York Daily News asked: What has this little Hitler ever done to make himself noteworthy?.
- little Hitlers
- plural form of little Hitler
- little auk
- A dovekie, a bird of the species Alle alle
- little auks
- plural form of little auk
- little black book
- An address book, especially one in which the details of previous lovers are recorded
- little bluestem
- A grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, native to North America
- little bluestems
- plural form of little bluestem
- little boy
- A male child, especially one younger than ten years of age
- little boy's room
- The toilets for men
- little boy's rooms
- plural form of little boy's room
- little boys
- plural form of little boy
- little boys' room
- Alternative spelling of little boy's room
- little boys' rooms
- plural form of little boys' room
- little brother
- A sibling's younger brother (used especially by children, or by parents in speaking to their children)
- little brown fucking machine
- A Filipino woman regarded as a sex object
LBFM is Navy speak for Little Brown Fucking Machine. They are the bar girls sailors meet in all the ports in the Orient. The term is generic for bar girls.
- little brown fucking machines
- plural form of little brown fucking machine
- little by little
- A small amount at a time
- little emperor
- In contemporary China, a child with no siblings who is regarded as overly protected and spoiled. (Seen as belonging to a generation which is a product of China's "one-child" policy.)
The Chinese have a special name for those tots: xiao huangdi, or little emperors..
- little emperors
- plural form of little emperor
- little finger
- the outermost and smallest finger of the hand, next to the ring finger, farthest from the thumb
- little fingers
- plural form of little finger
- little girl
- A female child, especially one younger than ten years of age
- little girl
- A weak-willed person
Laurie tells him to stop being such a little girl and do something bad for once.
- little girl's room
- The toilets for women; a ladies' room
- little girl's rooms
- plural form of little girl's room
- little girls
- plural form of little girl
- little girls' room
- Alternative spelling of little girl's room
- little girls' rooms
- Plural form of little girls' room or of little girl's room
- little grebe
- a small freshwater bird of Europe
- little grebes
- plural form of little grebe
- little green man
- A Martian
- little green man
- One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of UFOs
- little green men
- plural form of little green man
- little gull
- A small migratory gull, Larus minutus, from Northern Europe and Asia
- little gulls
- plural form of little gull
- little head
- The glans of the penis
Obsessed with Heidi's cleavage, the pervert within may start thinking with his little head instead of his big one.
- little ladies
- plural form of little lady
- little lady
- The wife or fiancée
Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
- little man in the boat
- The clitoris
- little of the creature
- A small drink of alcoholic spirits
And when he met her, he told her what he came about, and said that he never would mind what the women prayed for, but it was greatly against his health to be obliged to drink his wine and whiskey raw, and he'd a longing desire for a little of the creature neatly mixed up with lemon and sugar, and water .
- little one
- A term of endearment, especially toward children
- little ones
- plural form of little one (A term of endearment toward children.)
- little owls
- plural form of little owl
- little penguin
- The smallest species of penguin, scientific name Eudyptula minor, found in New Zealand, southern Australia, and the Chatham Islands
- little penguins
- plural form of little penguin
- little pitcher
- A child
Promise not to tell, or I shall be teased to death, she added, anxiously, entirely forgetting the two little pitchers gifted with eyes as well as ears, who had been watching the whole performance from afar.
- little pitchers
- plural form of little pitcher
- little pitchers have big ears
- Small children often overhear more of what is said than adults realize or desire
I suppose he might say pushed or went woowoo, but took a shit is, I fear, very much in the ballpark (little pitchers have big ears, after all).
- little pitchers have long ears
- Alternative form of little pitchers have big ears
- little sister
- A sibling's younger sister (used especially by children or by parents in speaking to their children)
- little slick
- An ace and a two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- little slick
- An ace and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- little spotted kiwi
- A kiwi, Apteryx owenii
- little spotted kiwis
- plural form of little spotted kiwi
- little tinamou
- A tinamou, Crypturellus soui
- little tinamous
- plural form of little tinamou
- little toe
- The smallest toe of the human foot
- little toes
- plural form of little toe
- little woman
- wife
My little woman, said her husband dubiously, are you quite sure you're better? Or are you, Sophia, about to break out in a fresh direction?.
- little women
- plural form of little woman
- little wonder
- Alternative form of small wonder
- little-endian
- Of a computer, storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first
- little-finger
- Attributive form of little finger, noun
- little-go
- A private lottery, especially when illegal
- little-go
- The first exam taken at university towards a BA degree, discontinued during the twentieth century
the interrogators were able to recognize this as, “There was a question just like that on my little-go.”.
- little-owl
- Attributive form of little owl, noun
- mighty oaks from little acorns grow
- Something great can come from a modest beginning
Don't give up on the project - mighty oaks from little acorns grow!.
- show a little ginger
- an 1800s baseball term meaning to play harder or smarter
- slip into something a little more comfortable
- To wear something suitable to be stripped off by a lover
She paused a moment before coming out of the bathroom, appreciating the irony of how uncomfortable her lingerie was, only moments after asking him if he minded if she slipped into something a little more comfortable.
- think with one's little head
- To make decisions or act based on one's sexual impulses rather than based on clear reasoning
t's fair to say that now-disgraced former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier was thinking with his little head—as well as his fat one.
- thinking with one's little head
- Present participle of think with one's little head
- wrap around one's little finger
- To successfully control or exert influence over, especially for a sustained period of time
He has all of them wrapped around his little finger. They'd do anything for him.
- little
- {n} a small space, share or part, mere trifle
- little
- {a} in a small degree or quantity
- little
- {a} small, diminutive, trifling, not much
- too little too late
- Not happening early enough or in a strong enough way to stop a bad situation getting worse: "Officials admit that the re-planting of the hillsides only started five years ago and seems to be a classic case of too little too late."
- little by little
- gradually, slowly
- little by little
- by a short distance; "they moved it by inches"
- little by little
- a little bit at a time; "the research structure has developed piecemeal"
