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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Whit \Whit\, noun [OE. wight, wiht, AS. wiht a creature, a thing. See {Wight}, and cf. {Aught}, {Naught}.] The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence. ''Samuel told him every whit.'' --1 Sam. iii. 18. ''Every whit as great.'' --South.
So shall I no whit be behind in duty. --Shak.
It does not me a whit displease. --Cowley.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
whit
noun: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: {shred}, {scintilla}, {iota}, {tittle}, {smidgen}, {smidgeon}, {smidgin}, {smidge}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "whit": ace, atom, bit, dab, damn, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, hoot, iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, scruple, shred, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whoop
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