zitful

[Dave Wilton]

"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
dave at wilton.net
http://www.wordorigins.org

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