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

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tit

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tinigua.

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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) (vulgar, slang)

  1. (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. 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, derogatory, slang) 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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    Catalan

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    Etymology

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    Onomatopoeic.

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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
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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

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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
    • Syllabification(key): tit
    • 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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    French

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    Adjective

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    tit (feminine tite, masculine plural tits, feminine plural tites)

    1. (colloquial) contraction of petit

    Noun

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    tit m (plural tits, feminine tite)

    1. (colloquial) contraction of petit

    Irish

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Middle Irish tuitid, from Old Irish do·tuit (“to fall”).[1]

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    Verb

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

    1. to fall, drop, come down
    2. to collapse
    3. to descend
    4. to decline, abate, deteriorate

    Conjugation

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    Conjugation of tit (first conjugation – A)
    indicative singular plural direct relative autonomous
    first second third first second third
    present titim titeann tú;
    titir†     		titeann sé, sí titimid; titeann muid titeann sibh titeann siad;
    titid†     		a thiteann; a thiteas titear
    past thit mé; thiteas thit tú; thitis thit sé, sí thiteamar; thit muid thit sibh; thiteabhair thit siad; thiteadar a thit titeadh
    past habitual thitinn /
    titinn‡     		thiteá /
    titeᇠ    		thiteadh sé, sí /
    titeadh sé, sí‡     		thitimis; thiteadh muid /
    titimis‡; titeadh muid‡     		thiteadh sibh /
    titeadh sibh‡     		thitidís; thiteadh siad /
    titidís‡; titeadh siad‡     		a thiteadh thití /
    tití‡
    singular plural direct relative autonomous
    first second third first second third
    future titfidh mé;
    titfead     		titfidh tú;
    titfir†     		titfidh sé, sí titfimid;
    titfidh muid     		titfidh sibh titfidh siad;
    titfid†     		a thitfidh; a thitfeas titfear
    conditional thitfinn /
    titfinn‡     		thitfeá /
    titfeᇠ    		thitfeadh sé, sí /
    titfeadh sé, sí‡     		thitfimis; thitfeadh muid /
    titfimis‡; titfeadh muid‡     		thitfeadh sibh /
    titfeadh sibh‡     		thitfidís; thitfeadh siad /
    titfidís‡; titfeadh siad‡     		a thitfeadh thitfí /
    titfí‡
    subjunctive singular plural direct relative autonomous
    first second third first second third
    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 singular plural direct relative autonomous
    first second third first second third
    — titim tit titeadh sé, sí titimis titigí;
    titidh†     		titidís — titear
    past participle tite
    verbal noun titim

    † archaic or dialect form
    ‡ dependent form

    Derived terms

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    • titimeach (“falling, tending to fall; caducous”, adjective)
    • titimeán m (“dropper”) (fishing)
    • titimeas m (“epilepsy”)

    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.

    References

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    1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 do·tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
    2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 9, page 10
    3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 245
    4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 390, page 130

    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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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
    Proto-Indo-European *-tis
    Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis
    Proto-Germanic *tīdiz
    Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
    Old Dutch tit

      Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis.

      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, (obsolete) tyd, tijdt, tydt, tijt, tyt
          • Afrikaans: tyd
          • Berbice Creole Dutch: titi
          • Javindo: tet
          • Jersey Dutch: tāid, tāidt
          • Negerhollands: tied, tid, tit
          • Skepi Creole Dutch: teit
          • → Indonesian: kala (semantic loan)
        • Limburgish: tied
        • Zealandic: tied

      References

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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 *tai(h)-tl. Compare Classical Nahuatl tletl (“fire”).

      Pronunciation

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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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      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

      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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      From English teeth.

      Noun

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      tit

      1. tooth

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      Torres Strait Creole

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      Etymology

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      From English teeth.

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      tit

      1. tooth
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