Read full poem →Of this fond gull to be saluted first,
Catch at my cap, but move it not a whit:
Which he perceiving,[504] seems for spite to burst.
Dictionary Entry
The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
In a Sentence
“He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
less whit. whitbetter whitsunday whitbehind whitmonday whitwhit onewhit any
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Poetry examples for “whit”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →That I might love thee still in spite of it:
Yet how should our Lord Love curtail one whit
Thy perfect praise whom most he would exalt?
Read full poem →parts of the world,—not to mention colleges and astronomers in
general,—are, to say the least of the matter, not a whit better,
nor greater, nor wiser than they ought to be.
Read full poem →Alas for pious planning--
It mattered not a whit!
As far as gloom went in that room,
Read full poem →And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
Read full poem →Nor winsomeness to wife, nor world's delight
Nor any whit else save the wave's slash,
Yet longing comes upon him to fare forth on the water.
Read full poem →He cursed thee and thine, both house and land:
Then there's that old Lord Maurice, not a whit
More tame for his gray hairs--Alas me! flit!
Read full poem →Step two abreast, the way winds narrowly!)
Not a whit troubled,
Back to his studies, fresher than at first,
Read full poem →Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit,
Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.