An American dialectal adjective meaning fitting, proper, or suitable, surviving in some rural Southern US dialects and 19th-century American literature as a marker of vernacular speech. Today it reads as strongly archaic or deliberately folksy, often employed for stylistic effect to evoke a regional or period voice.
Grandma said it weren't fitten for a body to go to the table without washing up first.
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(US, dialect, obsolete) ; proper; suitable.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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