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tit

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

English

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Etymology 1

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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

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  • tet (in certain senses only)

Noun

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tit (plural tits)

  1. (slang, vulgar, 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. (slang, vulgar) 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[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.
    • 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (5:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎[2], 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, slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "tithead".
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Etymology 2

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Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.

Noun

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tit (plural tits)

  1. (archaic) A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).

Verb

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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[3], 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[4], 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

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A blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)

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

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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.
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See also

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tit m (plural tits)

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

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Chuukese

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Noun

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tit

  1. fence, wall
  2. pen (enclosure)

Danish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse títt (“often”), the neuter form of the adjective tíðr (“frequent”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdijaz. Derived from the noun *tīdiz (“time”).

Adverb

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tit (comparative tiere, superlative tiest)

  1. often
  2. frequently
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Etymology 2

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Verbal noun to titte (“peep, peek”).

Noun

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tit n (singular definite tittet, plural indefinite tit)

  1. glimpse
Declension
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Declension of tit
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tit tittet tit tittene
genitive tits tittets tits tittenes

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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tit

  1. imperative of titte

Faroese

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Etymology

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

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Pronoun

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tit

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

Declension

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Faroese personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive
singular 1st person eg, jeg meg, mjeg mær mín
2nd person tú teg, tjeg tær tín
3rd person m hann honum hansara, hans†
f hon hana henni hennara, hennar†
n tað tí tess
plural 1st person vit okkum okkara
2nd person tit tykkum tykkara
3rd person m teir teimum, teim† teirra
f tær
n tey

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tit

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

Declension

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  • not inflected

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish do·tuit (“to fall”).

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Verb

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tit (present analytic titeann, future analytic titfidh, verbal noun titim, past participle tite)

  1. (intransitive) fall
    1. drop down
    2. collapse
    3. descend
    4. decline
    5. come down to lower level
    6. abate
    7. droop, deteriorate
    8. be overthrown, be killed
    9. lose position

Conjugation

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conjugation of tit (first conjugation – A)
verbal noun titim
past participle tite
tense singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative
present titim titeann tú;
titir† 		titeann sé, sí titimid titeann sibh titeann siad;
titid† 		a thiteann; a thiteas /
a dtiteann* 		titear
past thit mé; thiteas thit tú; thitis thit sé, sí thiteamar; thit muid thit sibh; thiteabhair thit siad; thiteadar a thit /
ar thit* 		titeadh
past habitual thitinn / dtitinn‡‡ thiteá / dtiteᇇ thiteadh sé, sí / dtiteadh sé, s퇇 thitimis; thiteadh muid / dtitimis‡‡; dtiteadh muid‡‡ thiteadh sibh / dtiteadh sibh‡‡ thitidís; thiteadh siad / dtitidís‡‡; dtiteadh siad‡‡ a thiteadh /
a dtiteadh* 		thití / dtit퇇
future titfidh mé;
titfead 		titfidh tú;
titfir† 		titfidh sé, sí titfimid;
titfidh muid 		titfidh sibh titfidh siad;
titfid† 		a thitfidh; a thitfeas /
a dtitfidh* 		titfear
conditional thitfinn / dtitfinn‡‡ thitfeá / dtitfeᇇ thitfeadh sé, sí / dtitfeadh sé, s퇇 thitfimis; thitfeadh muid / dtitfimis‡‡; dtitfeadh muid‡‡ thitfeadh sibh / dtitfeadh sibh‡‡ thitfidís; thitfeadh siad / dtitfidís‡‡; dtitfeadh siad‡‡ a thitfeadh /
a dtitfeadh* 		thitfí / dtitf퇇
subjunctive
present go dtite mé;
go dtitead† 		go dtite tú;
go dtitir† 		go dtite sé, sí go dtitimid;
go dtite muid 		go dtite sibh go dtite siad;
go dtitid† 		— go dtitear
past dá dtitinn dá dtiteá dá dtiteadh sé, sí dá dtitimis;
dá dtiteadh muid 		dá dtiteadh sibh dá dtitidís;
dá dtiteadh siad 		— dá dtití
imperative
– titim tit titeadh sé, sí titimis titigí;
titidh† 		titidís — titear

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Derived terms

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  • tit amach (“fall out; quarrel; befall, happen”, intransitive verb)
  • tit ar (“fall on; fall to lot of; decline, drift, towards; descend on; occur on”, intransitive verb)
  • tit chuig, tit chun (“pass into state of; accrue to”, intransitive verb)
  • tit do (“fall into”, intransitive verb)
  • tit faoi (“fall under”, intransitive verb)
  • tit i (“fall into; pass into state of; decline in”, intransitive verb)
  • tit isteach le (“fall in with; become friendly with”, intransitive verb)
  • tit le (“fall down along; fall to lot of; chance to get; succeed in doing; draw near to; occur to; fall by; suffer hardship for”, intransitive verb)
  • tit thart (“drop off”, intransitive verb)
  • titchomhla f (“drop-valve”)
  • titghaiste m (“fall-trap”)
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of tit
radical lenition eclipsis
tit thit dtit

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Kavalan

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Noun

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tit

  1. kingfisher

Old Dutch

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz.

Noun

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tīt f or m

  1. time
  2. moment

Inflection

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Declension of tīt (feminine i-stem noun)
case singular plural
nominative tīt tīdi
accusative tīt tīdi
genitive tīdi tīdo
dative tīdi tīdin, tīdon
Declension of tīt (masculine i-stem noun)
case singular plural
nominative tīt tīdi
accusative tīt tīdi
genitive tīdis tīdo
dative tīdi tīdin, tīdon

Descendants

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  • Middle Dutch: tijt
    • Dutch: tijd
      • Afrikaans: tyd
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: titi
      • Javindo: tet
      • Jersey Dutch: tāid, tāidt
      • Negerhollands: tied, tid, tit
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: teit
    • Limburgish: tied
    • Zealandic: tied

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  • “tīt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

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Noun

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tit m

  1. Alternative form of titt

Pipil

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nahuan *tlai(h)-. Compare Classical Nahuatl tletl (“fire”).

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tīt

  1. fire
    Shiktali ne kumit pak ne tit
    Put the pot on the fire

Pnar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Khasian *tit, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *pt₁is. Cognate with Khasi tit, Riang [Sak] tis¹, Khmu [Cuang] tih, Khmer ផ្សិត (phsət).

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Noun

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tit

  1. mushroom

Slavomolisano

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Etymology

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From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian htiti; compare Ijekavian htjeti, Ekavian hteti.

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tit impf

  1. to want

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From English teeth.

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tit

  1. tooth

Torres Strait Creole

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Etymology

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From English teeth.

Noun

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tit

  1. tooth
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