tit

  • 21tit — tit1 /tit/, n. 1. a titmouse. 2. any of various other small birds. 3. Archaic. a girl or young woman; hussy. 4. Archaic. a small or poor horse; nag. [1540 50; repr. ME tite (in titemose TITMOUSE); c. Norw tite titmouse; akin to ON tittr tack, pin …

    Universalium

  • 22tit — English has three separate words tit. The oldest, ‘breast’ [OE], belongs to a West Germanic family of terms for ‘breast’ or ‘nipple’ that also includes German zitze and Dutch tit: it presumably originated in imitation of a baby’s sucking sounds.… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 23tit — English has three separate words tit. The oldest, ‘breast’ [OE], belongs to a West Germanic family of terms for ‘breast’ or ‘nipple’ that also includes German zitze and Dutch tit: it presumably originated in imitation of a baby’s sucking sounds.… …

    Word origins

  • 24tit — n 1a. a breast. Various Old Germanic lan guages and late Latin dialects contained related words formed on the root tet or tit (teta in Spanish and teton in French are modern cognates). Teat was, for many centuries, the standard English form; in… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 25tit — I tit 1. tit sb., tet, tit, tene (kik, det at titte) II tit 2. tit adv.; tiere; tiest; tit og ofte …

    Dansk ordbog

  • 26titə — (Borçalı, Gədəbəy, Meğri, Şəmkir, Şuşa) gözün qarasına düşən ağ ləkə. – Gözündə titə var onun (Borçalı) ◊ Titə tüşməx’ (Ağdam, Gədəbəy, Tərtər, Şəmkir, Şuşa) – gözün qarasına ağ ləkə düşmək. – Gözümə titə tüşüf (Gədəbəy); – Gözümüzə titə tüşəndə… …

    Azərbaycan dilinin dialektoloji lüğəti

  • 27tit — I. /tɪt / (say tit) noun 1. any of various small Australian birds, especially a thornbill. 2. any of various birds of the family Paridae, as the blue tit, Parsus caeruleus, or of the family Aegithalidae, as the long tailed tit, Aegithalos… …

  • 28tit — Titmouse Tit mouse , n.; pl. {Titmice}. [OE. titemose, titmase; tit small, or a small bird + AS. m[=a]se a kind of small bird; akin to D. mees a titmouse, G. meise, OHG. meisa, Icel. meisingr. The English form has been influenced by the unrelated …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 29Tit — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Tit est un mot de la langue Touareg qui signifie « œil »[1] et « source » [2]. Toponymes …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 30tit — [[t]tɪ̱t[/t]] tits 1) N COUNT A tit is a small European bird that eats insects and seeds. There are several kinds of tit. → See also blue tit 2) N COUNT: usu pl A woman s tits are her breasts. [INFORMAL, RUDE] 3) N COUNT (disapproval) If you call …

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