Adjective: likkle
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more likkle |
| Superlative | most likkle |
Sample Sentences
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I'm in the tub, you on the seat / Lick your lips as I soap my feet / Then you notice likkle carpet burn / My stomach drop and my guts churn [2007 January 8, Amy Winehouse, “You Know I'm No Good” (track 2), in Back to Black:]
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But I roll deep on these / Show these likkle MCs about greaze / Show these likkle MCs about me / I was on my steeze from 2003 [2017, Stormzy, Karl Joseph, Dizzee Rascal, “Return of the Rucksack” (track 11), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:]
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A likkle bit of brown for my twitter TL too🤎 [2021 April 20, @WirthMaisha, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:]
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Got myself my car / Bagged my degree / Got myself a likkle apartment [2022 December 28, @xhosa_aquarian, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:]
Adjectives inflected like likkle
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole likkle, from English little. See: English Adjectives '
little'.