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tit¹
- /tɪt/
Rhymes with -ɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“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.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).
noun tits · tet
- A person's breast or nipple. 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.
- An animal's teat or udder. A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.
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An idiot; a fool.
Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
Similar: addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead
- A police officer; a "tithead".
tit²
- /tɪt/
Rhymes with -ɪt
Where it comes from
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
noun tits
- A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
verb tits · titting · titted
- To strike lightly, tap, pat. Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
- To taunt, to reproach. they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.
tit³
- /tɪt/
Rhymes with -ɪt
Where it comes from
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).
noun 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.
- A small horse; a nag. […] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.
- A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy. "What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"
- A morsel; a bit. Now if you can shew so neat a foot, ( shewing her shoe ) —Parlez moi de ça : —I suppose I was not noble enough for this squire; he must have a bit a blood, a tit of quality — but I shall be a countess soon, and a mighty good sort of countess I shall make.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: bosom, breast, mamilla, mammilla, nipple, teat, pap, knocker, boob, titmouse, titty, bust, chest, mammary, jug, hooter
Translations
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noun (slang, vulgar) a woman's breast
| Español | macoca, melón, teta |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 젖 jeot, 젖꼭지 jeotkkokji |
| 日本語 | おっぱい oppai, ぱいぱい paipai, ぱいおつ paiotsu |
| 中文 | 波 bō, 咪咪 mīmī |
| हिन्दी | चूची cūcī |
| Português | teta, peito |
| Français | nibard, nichon, lolo, néné |
| Deutsch | Titte, Brust, Möpse |
| Italiano | tetta, poppa, seno, mammella, zizza, zinna |
| Ελληνικά | βυζί vyzí |
| Română | țâță, sân |
| Русский | си́ська sísʹka, ти́тька títʹka, до́йки dójki, буфера́ buferá |
| العربية | بِزّ bizz, بُزّ buzz |
noun a mammary gland, teat
| Español | teta |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 乳 chichi, 乳房 chibusa |
| 中文 | 乳頭 /乳头 rǔtóu, 乳房 rǔfáng |
| हिन्दी | स्तन stan |
| Kiswahili | jegi |
| Português | teta, mama |
| Français | glande mammaire |
| Deutsch | Zitze, Euter |
| Italiano | tetta |
| Ελληνικά | θήλη thíli |
| Română | mamelon, sfârc |
| Русский | моло́чная железа́ molóčnaja železá, сосо́к sosók |
| العربية | حَلَمَة ḥalama |
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