vittle
- noun
- /ˈvɪtəl/
- Archaic
- You can't have a hoedown without the vittles.
- get your vittles
Examples
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We'll see to them once we've had our vittles.
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At the picnic, we brought plenty of vittles for everyone to enjoy.
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We thank the Lord every day... for the good vittles and these beautiful clothes.
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Anybody can fix good vittles, if they have something to cook.
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On our vittles and our drink!
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- We still on for some vittles?
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We eat the same kind of vittles
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Yeah, I'll have the wife cook up some vittles.
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Matthew, it's nigh on time to get some breakfast vittles.
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Well, I'd be overjoyed if you'd share my vittles... and break bread with my wife, Bobby Dean, and me.
Synonyms
Food and drink served in a place like a restaurant
A supply of food and other needed things for a trip
Food and drink kept or prepared to eat
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vittle comes from an old Latin word victus meaning 'food', and over time English speakers began to say it as 'vittles'. So vittle means simple or home-style food you carry or eat on a trip.