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See also: Tit, tiṭ, tīt, tít, ti̍t, tịt, tɨt, tit., Tit., and Tít

Translingual

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tit

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tinigua.

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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).

Alternative forms

  • tet (in certain senses only)

Noun

tit (plural tits) (vulgar, slang)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A person's breast or nipple.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:breast
    • 2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 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.
    • 2006, Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision:
      Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
    • 1987, “A Conflict of Interest”, in Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, directors, Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), BBC2:
      Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
  2. An animal's teat or udder.
    • 1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19:
      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.
  3. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) An idiot; a fool.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot
    Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
    • 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Errol (Andy Beckwith):
      I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.
    • 2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed‎, 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.
    • 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (5:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
      “I asked Nandor and Colin Robinson to come with me on the first day because I didn't want the class to look too empty. But now I cannot get those two tits to leave.”
  4. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A police officer; a "tithead".
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Translations

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)

    1. (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)

    1. (transitive or intransitive, obsolete) To strike lightly, tap, pat.
      • 1897 [1607], John Webster, “Northward Hoe”, in The Dramatic Works of John Webster‎, page 203:
        Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
    2. (transitive, obsolete) To taunt, to reproach.
      • 1623, James Mabbe, The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache‎, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán:
        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.

    Etymology 3

    Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).

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    Noun

    tit (plural tits)

    2. A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
    3. Any of various other small passerine birds.
    4. (archaic) A small horse; a nag.
      • 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 66:
        […] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.
      • 1854, Charles James Collins, The life and adventures of Dick Diminy, page 156:
        Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad looking tit,” said St. Leger, as they went along.
      • 1862, Robert Kemp Philp, The Family friend, page 362:
        Gossiping, and smoothing the horse's mane down with his hand, "A nice little tit," said the man.
      • 2019, George Manville Fenn, Cursed by a Fortune:
        I shall keep my eye open, and the first pretty little tit I see that I think will suit you, I shall make the guv'nor buy.
    5. (archaic) A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
      • 1843, Charles James C. Davidson, Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India:
        "What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"
      • 1887, George Manville Fenn, The Master of the Ceremonies, page 44:
        But I don't mind; she's a pretty little tit, and Dick has taught her to call me uncle.
      • 2013, Vic Gatrell, The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age, page xcix:
        What, I suppose, Mr. Loader, you will be for your old friend the black ey'd girl, from Rosemary Lane. Ha ha! Well, 'tis a merry little tit. A thousand pities she's such a reprobate!
    6. A morsel; a bit.
      • 1813, James Lawrence, The Englishman at Verdun; Or the Prisoner of Peace, page 44:
        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.
      • 1951, Thomas Henry MacDermot, Tom Redcam, Orange Valley, and Other Poems, page 66:
        Being drunk , he remembers not a tit of life before the drink came well home. It is not that he sees the past mistily; he does not see at all. He lives then only in as much of the present as the word of his master for the time being […]
      • 1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 236:
        Would we understand woman if we took her whole instead of tit by tit?
      • 1999, Benjamin Capps, A Woman of the People, page 78:
        The one farthest from the river was the largest and tallest; they decreased in size toward the river, until the fourth was little more than a tit of rock jutting up out of the prairie.
    Derived terms
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    Etymology

    Onomatopoeic.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    tit m (plural tits)

    1. a sharp short sound, such as a whistle, especially when used to call poultry
    2. (childish) chick
      Synonym: pollet

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Chuukese

    Noun

    tit

    1. fence, wall
    2. pen (enclosure)

    Danish

    Pronunciation

    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)

    1. often
    2. frequently
    Synonyms

    Etymology 2

    Verbal noun to titte (“peep, peek”).

    Noun

    tit n (singular definite tittet, plural indefinite tit)

    1. glimpse
    Declension
    More information neuter gender, singular ...

    Etymology 3

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    tit

    1. imperative of titte
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    Faroese

    Etymology

    From Old Norse þit (earlier Old Norse it), cognate with Icelandic þið.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /tiːt/
    • Rhymes: -iːt

    Pronoun

    tit

    1. you (plural)
      Synonym: tykur (Suðuroy)

    Declension

    More information nominative, accusative ...
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    Finnish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈtit/, [ˈt̪it̪]
    • Rhymes: -it
    • Syllabification(key): tit
    • Hyphenation(key): tit

    Noun

    tit

    1. alternative form of ti (“dit (in Morse code)”)

    Declension

    • not inflected

    Derived terms

    Irish

    Kavalan

    Old Dutch

    Old English

    Pipil

    Pnar

    Slavomolisano

    Tok Pisin

    Torres Strait Creole

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