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wittles

noun · Dialect

It feels like a generous, unpretentious meal shared in a quiet country kitchen.

A regional or colloquial phonetic variant of victuals, meaning food of any kind.

In the wild

“Pull up a chair and share my wittles, for there is more than enough for two.”

Origin

A dialectal alteration of the standard victuals, documented extensively in regional surveys.

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