bittock

I will give bittock of bread except thee no whit of food, thou yield thy person except thou yield thyself to me.'

He ate his saumon wi' his fork in ae hand, and a bittock of bread in the other.

And as he dangled in pain, a night-wandering Bittock on a branch above him called piteously: "Oo-ee, oo-ee, oo-ee!"

It is, of course, 'little bit', the Scotch 'mile and a bittock'.

This expression compares with the Scottish so many miles “and a bittock.”