a. dial. Also littleish. [f. LITTLE a. + -ISH.] Rather little.
1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., III. vi. This littlish blade’s broke. Ibid. (c. 1865), in Pall Mall Gaz., 18 Nov. (1883), 1/2. Their [sc. servants’] standard measures too are of a private kind; a good lump, a handful, a tea-cup, a littleish basin [etc.].
