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WORD OF THE DAY: Tittynope


Hotelier Middle East Staff, January 26th, 2010

Tittynope: (noun) a small quantity of anything left over, whether a few beans on a dinner plate or the dregs at the bottom of a cup.

In a sentence:

Waiter: Sometimes I wonder if we could put our tittynopes to better use.

Sommelier: We could put the plate tittynopes on the compost heap and put the beverage tittynopes together to make a cocktail.

Waiter: Quite.