English Explanatory Dictionary

Tityre-tu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a gang of criminal youths that originated in the early 1620s.

Word forms

Tityre-tu Tityre-tus

Etymology

An allusion to the first line in Virgil's First Eclogue: "Tityre tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi" ("Tityrus, thou reclining beneath the shelter of the spreading beech tree").

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