English Explanatory Dictionary

tit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person's breast or nipple.
  2. An animal's teat or udder.
  3. An idiot; a fool.
  4. A police officer; a "tithead".
noun
  1. A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
verb
  1. To strike lightly, tap, pat.
  2. To taunt, to reproach.
noun
  1. A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
  2. Any of various other small passerine birds.
  3. A small horse; a nag.
  4. A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
  5. A morsel; a bit.

Pronunciation

/tɪt/ En-au-tit.ogg

Word forms

tit tits tet titting titted

Etymology

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).

Synonyms

addle-brain addlehead addle pate airhead baboon beanbrain beetlebrain beetlehead berk bimbo birdbrain blockhead blubberbrain bonehead Boeotian boob bozo brainlet brickhead bubblehead bubble brain bufflehead buffoon Charlie chowderhead chucklehead chump cittern-head clod clodpate clot clown crackhead cretin cuckoo deadhead dimbo dim bulb dimbus dimwit dingbat ding dong dingleberry dingwad dip dipstick doldrum dolt donut doodle doof doofoid doofus dope dork drivel drongo drool bucket dullard dumb bunny

Related words

titty tittie tit lok

Derived words

arse about tit arse over tit bitch tits calm your tits cold as a witch's tit cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra electric tit get one's tits in a wringer get on someone's tits get your tits out for the lads hind tit keep one's tits on man tit off one's tits press tits suck hind tit suck tits sugar tit tit about tit fuck tit juice tit mag tits and ass tits and bums tits out for the lads tits up tits-up tit tape tittie titty tit up tit wank useful as tits on a bull useless as tits on a boar hog useless as tits on a bull acacia tit African blue tit ashy tit azure tit bearded tit black-bibbed tit black-crested tit blue tit bottletit bushtit Carp's tit Caspian tit chestnut-bellied tit cinereous tit cinnamon-breasted tit coal tit crested tit crow-tit dusky tit elegant tit European penduline tit fire-capped tit great tit green-backed tit grey crested tit
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