pittie

pittie

1. Obsolete spelling of pity

pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)

1. Obsolete spelling of pity

pit (“pit bull terrier”) +‎ -ie

pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)

1. (informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.
   • 2012, Marta Acosta, Dark Companion, page 33:

     I was used to slammed doors, rumbling buses, shouting, snarling pitties, police sirens, […]

   • 2014, Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, page 247:

     Maybe he'd want a signal from me that he should rush to the carrier and retrieve a pittie on his own— a small one, alive, our new class pet.

   • 2015 August, Sara Ernest, “Love in Rescue”, in Quorum, page 6:

     Lori and I rescued a pittie from a local rescue organization and our lives have never been the same.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pittie.

• pibble (informal), pit (slang), pit bull, shitbull (pejorative), velvet hippo (slang)