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

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishtit,titte,tette, fromOld Englishtit,titt, fromProto-West Germanic*titt, fromProto-Germanic*tittaz(“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin.

Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compareProto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-y-.Doublet ofteat, which was borrowed from Old French.

Cognates

Cognate withSaterland FrisianTit,Dutchtiet, dialectalDutchtet,GermanZitze,Titte,HunsrikDitz,Yiddishציצע(tsitse).

Alternative forms

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  • tet(in certain senses only)

Noun

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tit (pluraltits)

  1. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in theplural) A person'sbreast ornipple.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:breast
    • 2012,Caitlin Moran,Moranthology, Ebury Press, published2012, page13:
      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 withtits.
    • 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 mostbeautifultits."
    • 1987, “A Conflict of Interest”, in Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, directors,Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 4, spoken byBernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds),BBC2:
      Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got bigtits.
  2. (slang, vulgar) An animal'steat orudder.
    • 1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, inGay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page19:
      A large bowl of suckulent[sic] raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat'stit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.
  3. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) Anidiot; afool.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:idiot
    Look at thattit driving on the wrong side of the road!
    • 2000,Guy Ritchie,Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Errol (Andy Beckwith):
      I know a lot oftits, 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, page234:
      “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 dumbtit.”
    • 2012 January 15,Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 ofSherlock, 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 atit. Which is a lot of people.
    • 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (5:12 from the start), inWhat 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 twotits to leave.”
  4. (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) Apolice officer; a "tithead".
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Related terms
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Translations
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a mammary gland, teat
(slang, vulgar) a woman's breast
idiot, fool

Etymology 2

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Perhapsimitative of light tap. Compare earliertip for tap(“blow for blow”), fromtip +tap; compare also dialectaltint for tant.

Noun

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tit (pluraltits)

  1. (archaic) A lightblow orhit (now usually in the phrasetit for tat).

Verb

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tit (third-person singular simple presenttits,present participletitting,simple past and past participletitted)

  1. (transitive or intransitive, obsolete) Tostrike lightly,tap,pat.
    • 1897 [1607], John Webster, “Northward Hoe”, inThe Dramatic Works of John Webster‎[3], page203:
      Cometit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
  2. (transitive, obsolete) Totaunt, toreproach.
    • 1623,James Mabbe,The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache‎[4], translation ofGuzmán 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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Ablue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)

Probably ofNorth Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest intitling andtitmouse; compareFaroesetítlingur, dialectalNorwegiantitling(“small stockfish”).

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Noun

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tit (pluraltits)

  2. Achickadee; a smallpasserine bird of the genusParus or the familyParidae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
  3. Any of various other smallpasserine birds.
  4. (archaic) A smallhorse; anag.
    • 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, inThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] andJ[ames] Dodsley […], published1760,→OCLC,page66:
      […] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride histit with more ſobriety.
    • 1854, Charles James Collins,The life and adventures of Dick Diminy, page156:
      Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad lookingtit,” said St. Leger, as they went along.
    • 1862, Robert Kemp Philp,The Family friend, page362:
      Gossiping, and smoothing the horse's mane down with his hand, "A nice littletit," said the man.
    • 2019, George Manville Fenn,Cursed by a Fortune:
      I shall keep my eye open, and the first pretty littletit I see that I think will suit you, I shall make the guv'nor buy.
  5. (archaic) A younggirl, later especially aminx,hussy.
    • 1843, Charles James C. Davidson,Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India:
      "What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively littletit—"eh?"
    • 1887, George Manville Fenn,The Master of the Ceremonies, page44:
      But I don't mind; she's a pretty littletit, 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 littletit. 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, page44:
      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, atit 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, page66:
      Being drunk , he remembers not atit 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, page236:
      Would we understand woman if we took her whole instead oftit bytit?
    • 1999, Benjamin Capps,A Woman of the People, page78:
      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 atit of rock jutting up out of the prairie.
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Translations
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chickadee—seechickadee
a small horse
a young girl
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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 (pluraltits)

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

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Further reading

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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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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsetítt(“often”), the neuter form of the adjectivetíðr(“frequent”), fromProto-Germanic*tīdijaz. Derived from the noun*tīdiz(“time”).

Adverb

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tit (comparativetiere,superlativetiest)

  1. often
  2. frequently
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Etymology 2

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Verbal noun totitte(“peep, peek”).

Noun

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tit n (singular definitetittet,plural indefinitetit)

  1. glimpse
Declension
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Declension oftit
neuter
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativetittittettittittene
genitivetitstittetstitstittenes

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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tit

  1. imperative oftitte

Faroese

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Etymology

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FromOld Norseþit (earlierOld Norseit), cognate withIcelandicþið.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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tit

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

Declension

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Faroese personal pronouns
nominativeaccusativedativegenitive
singular1st personeg,jegmeg,mjegmærmín
2nd persontúteg,tjegtærtín
3rd personmhannhonumhansara,hans†
fhonhanahennihennara,hennar†
ntaðtítess
plural1st personvitokkumokkara
2nd persontittykkumtykkara
3rd personmteirteimum,teim†teirra
ftær
ntey

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tit

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

Declension

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  • not inflected

Derived terms

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Irishdo·tuit(“to fall”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tit (present analytictiteann,future analytictitfidh,verbal nountitim,past participletite)

  1. (intransitive)fall
    1. drop down
    2. collapse
    3. descend
    4. decline
    5. come down to lowerlevel
    6. abate
    7. droop,deteriorate
    8. beoverthrown, bekilled
    9. loseposition

Conjugation

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conjugation oftit (first conjugation – A)
verbal nountitim
past participletite
tensesingularpluralrelativeautonomous
firstsecondthirdfirstsecondthird
indicative
presenttitimtiteann tú;
titir†		titeann sé, sítitimidtiteann sibhtiteann siad;
titid†		athiteann; athiteas /
adtiteann*		titear
pastthit mé;thiteasthit tú;thitisthit sé, síthiteamar;thit muidthit sibh;thiteabhairthit siad;thiteadarathit /
arthit*		titeadh
past habitualthitinn /dtitinn‡‡thiteá /dtiteᇇthiteadh sé, sí /dtiteadh sé, s퇇thitimis;thiteadh muid /dtitimis‡‡;dtiteadh muid‡‡thiteadh sibh /dtiteadh sibh‡‡thitidís;thiteadh siad /dtitidís‡‡;dtiteadh siad‡‡athiteadh /
adtiteadh*		thití /dtit퇇
futuretitfidh mé;
titfead		titfidh tú;
titfir†		titfidh sé, sítitfimid;
titfidh muid		titfidh sibhtitfidh siad;
titfid†		athitfidh; athitfeas /
adtitfidh*		titfear
conditionalthitfinn /dtitfinn‡‡thitfeá /dtitfeᇇthitfeadh sé, sí /dtitfeadh sé, s퇇thitfimis;thitfeadh muid /dtitfimis‡‡;dtitfeadh muid‡‡thitfeadh sibh /dtitfeadh sibh‡‡thitfidís;thitfeadh siad /dtitfidís‡‡;dtitfeadh siad‡‡athitfeadh /
adtitfeadh*		thitfí /dtitf퇇
subjunctive
presentgodtite mé;
godtitead†		godtite tú;
godtitir†		godtite sé, sígodtitimid;
godtite muid		godtite sibhgodtite siad;
godtitid†		—godtitear
pastdádtitinndádtiteádádtiteadh sé, sídádtitimis;
dádtiteadh muid		dádtiteadh sibhdádtitidís;
dádtiteadh siad		—dádtití
imperative
–titimtittiteadh sé, sítitimistitigí;
titidh†		titidís—titear

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

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 oftit
radicallenitioneclipsis
titthitdtit

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

Further reading

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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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FromProto-West Germanic*tīdi, fromProto-Germanic*tīdiz.

Noun

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tīt f orm

  1. time
  2. moment

Inflection

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Declension oftīt (feminine i-stem noun)
casesingularplural
nominativetīttīdi
accusativetīttīdi
genitivetīditīdo
dativetīditīdin,tīdon
Declension oftīt (masculine i-stem noun)
casesingularplural
nominativetīttīdi
accusativetīttīdi
genitivetīdistīdo
dativetīditīdin,tīdon

Descendants

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References

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  • “tīt”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

Old English

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Noun

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tit m

  1. Alternative form oftitt

Pipil

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Etymology

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FromProto-Nahuan*tlai(h)-. CompareClassical Nahuatltletl(“fire”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tīt

  1. fire
    Shiktali ne kumit pak netit
    Put the pot on thefire

Pnar

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Etymology

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FromProto-Khasian*tit, fromProto-Mon-Khmer*pt₁is. Cognate withKhasitit,Riang [Sak]tis¹,Khmu [Cuang]tih,Khmerផ្សិត(phsət).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tit

  1. mushroom

Slavomolisano

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Etymology

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From IkavianSerbo-Croatianhtiti; compare Ijekavianhtjeti, Ekavianhteti.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tit impf

  1. towant

References

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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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FromEnglishteeth.

Noun

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tit

  1. tooth

Torres Strait Creole

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Etymology

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FromEnglishteeth.

Noun

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tit

  1. tooth
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