zitful

Dave Wilton dave at WILTON.NET
Sun Aug 6 04:07:56 UTC 2006


"Zitful" appears several times in the novel "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" in the
phrase "zitful cap." The book gives no clue as to what it means. There are a
couple of other citations for "zitful cap/hat" on the web--literally a couple.
One website defines it as a ski hat, but I don't know what stock to place in
this.

It's clearly unrelated to zit = pimple. (There are many uses of "zitful" meaning
pimply.)

Anyone have any clue what the term means and where it may have come from?

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Dave Wilton
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