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Very, very small — smaller than you expected, and often smaller than is enough. It is informal British English, and it carries a feeling with it: usually a small complaint, sometimes affection. A 'titchy' flat is cramped; a 'titchy' portion of chips leaves you hungry; a 'titchy' kitten is sweet. The word is not neutral the way 'small' is — you choose it when the smallness is the point. It is used of things far more than of people, though it can describe a person too. Like 'titch', it is British, informal, and a bit dated; you would not put it in a report or an email to a customer.
小小的、超小的（口語，常帶點嫌棄或可愛的語氣）
組成From 'titch' (a small person) plus the ending '-y', which turns a noun into an adjective: 'dirt' → 'dirty', 'noise' → 'noisy'. So 'titchy' is 'titch-like', tiny. Some dictionaries also connect the spelling to 'tetchy' (bad-tempered), whose own origin is not certain — I would not lean on that link.
同家族的字
- titchthe noun this adjective is built from — a small person
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
titchyadj詞源 2/tɪt͡ʃi/
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informalTiny, very small.
- Let's 'ave a look at some of them titchy ones.
- 'Haven't you got little feet?' I said. 'Has everybody got titchy plates in Belgium?'
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。