a. [f. LITTER sb. + -Y.] Of or pertaining to litter; marked by the presence of litter; tending to produce litter; untidy.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 270. The long littery dung from livery stables.
1847. in Fraser’s Mag. (1848), XXXVII. 308. The littery practice of serving up the potatoes in their skins.
1858. Miss Mulock, Th. about Wom., 275. The rooms are untidy and ‘littery.’
1859. R. Thompson, Gardener’s Assist., 622. As much short moist dung as will prevent the littery portion from becoming dry.
1866. Carlyle, Remin., I. 101. He took me into his library, a rough, littery, but considerable collection.
1882. Garden, 21 Jan., 43/3. The whole process is troublesome, littery,… and is … uncertain in its results.
