Definition of "whit" []

• The least bit; an iota: doesn't give a whit what was said; not a whit afraid. (noun)

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• "The mourning warbler's song, as I heard it, was like this: _Whit whit whit_, _wit wit_."
• "This is his song, or what answers to a song, but I have seen him when he would do nothing but repeat incessantly a quick trisyllabic call, _whit, whit, whit_; corresponding, I suppose, to the well-known _whit_ with which the phoebe sometimes busies himself in a similar manner."
• "John Cusack, equipped with his typical black suit and precision-guided whit, is the assassin, Brand Hauser, who has been hired to take out a high-profile target, Omar Sharif (not the real one)."