nittie

nittie (comparative nittier or more nittie, superlative nittiest or most nittie)

1. Obsolete spelling of nitty.
   • c. 1620, An Excellent New Medley: To the Tune of the Spanish Pauin, [London: s.n.], OCLC 606477792; republished as Charles Hindley, editor, The Roxburghe Ballads, volume I, London: Reeves and Turner, […], 1873, OCLC 28234893, page 79:

     Rich people haue the world at will, / Trades fade, but Lawiers flourish still, / Iacke would be married unto Gyll; / but care will kill a Cat. / Are you there, Sirrah, with your beares? / A Barbers shop with the nittie haires, / Doll, Phillis hath lost both her eares / for coozning.

   • 1631, [Richard Brathwait], “A Ruffian”, in Whimzies: Or, a Nevv Cast of Characters, London: Imprinted by F[elix] K[ingston] and are to be sold by Ambrose Rithirdon […], OCLC 606500330; republished as James O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Whimzies; or A New Cast of Characters: From the Original Edition, Published in 1631, London: Printed by Thomas Richards, […], 1859, OCLC 67413141, pages 83–84:

     Next night, therefore, these nittie haxters intend with strong hand to breake his glass-window's, or at dead-time of night to pull downe his signe: and so ends their faire quarrel.