Definitions and meaning of tit
tit
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɪt/
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- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin.
Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French.
Alternative forms
- tet (in certain senses only)
Noun
tit (plural tits)
- (now often considered vulgar) A mammary gland, teat.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:breast
- 2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press 2012, p. 13:
- I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.
- (Britain, derogatory, slang) An idiot; a fool.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot
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- 2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed,[1] iUniverse, →ISBN, page 234,
- “What did you say to the cops?” / “I told them everything about the smuggling ring.” / “Why the fuck did you do that?” / “They were nice to me.” / “They’re always nice to people they want to get information from, you dumb tit.”
- 2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 00:52:46-00:52:55:
- John Watson (to Sherlock Holmes): It's Lestrade. Says they're all coming over here right now. Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit. Which is a lot of people.
- (Britain, slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "tithead".
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Etymology 2
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
Noun
tit (plural tits)
- (archaic) A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
Verb
tit (third-person singular simple present tits, present participle titting, simple past and past participle titted)
- (transitive or intransitive, obsolete) To strike lightly, tap, pat.
- (transitive, obsolete) To taunt, to reproach.
Etymology 3
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”), which could ultimately be from a base alluding to diminutive size; compare the first element of titbit.
Wikispecies
Noun
tit (plural tits)
- A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Any of various other small passerine birds.
- (archaic) A small horse; a nag.
- (archaic) A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
- A morsel; a bit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
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Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈtit/
Noun
tit m (plural tits)
- (childish) chick
- Synonym: pollet
Further reading
- “tit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “tit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “tit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chuukese
Noun
tit
- fence, wall
- pen (enclosure)
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tit/, [ˈtˢid̥]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse títt (“often”), the neuter form of the adjective tíðr (“frequent”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdijaz. Derived from the noun *tīdiz (“time”).
Adverb
tit (comparative tiere, superlative tiest)
- often
- frequently
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Verbal noun to titte (“peep, peek”).
Noun
tit n (singular definite tittet, plural indefinite tit)
- glimpse
Inflection
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
tit
- imperative of titte
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse þið.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiːt/
- Rhymes: -iːt
Pronoun
tit
- you (plural)
- Synonym: tykur (Suðuroy)
Declension
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish do·tuit (“falls”, verb).
Pronunciation
Verb
tit (present analytic titeann, future analytic titfidh, verbal noun titim, past participle tite)
- (intransitive) fall
- drop down
- collapse
- descend
- decline
- come down to lower level
- abate
- droop, deteriorate
- be overthrown, be killed
- lose position
Conjugation
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Mutation
Further reading
- "tit" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 do·tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “tit” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “tit” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Kavalan
Noun
tit
- kingfisher
Lashi
Pronunciation
Noun
tit
- talk
Verb
tit
- to talk
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Pipil
Etymology
From Proto-Nahuan *tlai(h)-. Compare Classical Nahuatl tletl (“fire”)
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /tiːt/
Noun
tīt
- fire
Pnar
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *tit, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *pt₁is. Cognate with Khasi tit, Riang [Sak] tis¹, Khmu [Cuang] tih, Khmer ផ្សិត (phsət).
Pronunciation
Noun
tit
- mushroom
Slavomolisano
Etymology
From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian htiti; compare Ijekavian htjeti, Ekavian hteti.
Pronunciation
Verb
tit impf
- to want
References
- Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 413–414
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English teeth.
Noun
tit
- tooth
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English teeth.
Noun
tit
- tooth
Source: wiktionary.org- pertaining to structural material.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)