littler
USLIT-uhl-er/ˈlɪ.tl.ɚ/SayLIT-uhl-uhUK/ˈlɪ.tl.ə/AUS/ˈlɪ.ɾɫ̩.ə/
- 1Comparative of little.
The littler of the two puppies kept getting pushed away from the bowl.
She packed everything into the littler suitcase for the weekend trip.
Note
The plain -er ending does the work here, and it reaches the childhood sense of little as easily as the size sense. In Will Davies, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders's line "ever since I was little. Well... littler," it means younger, not smaller. For physical size, smaller is the more frequent choice. For amount, little takes less, never littler.
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Origin
Formed from 'little' with the suffix '-er'.