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Pronunciation
IPA|/tɪt/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪt|-ɪt

Etymology 1
From OE. term|titt||xs=ang. Compare term|teat|.

Noun
en-noun

1. A mammary gland, teat.
2. context|slang|vulgar A woman's breast.

#: She's got an amazing pair of tits.

1. context|UK|pejorative|slang An idiot; a fool.

#: Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!

Quotations
sense|An idiot

• 2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed,^¹ iUniverse, ISBN 0-595-26199-X, 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.�

Synonyms
sense|breast See WikiSaurus:breast.

Translations
trans-top|A mammary gland, teat
Bosnian: (sisna) bradavica f
Danish: brystvorte c
Dutch: tiet f
Finnish: nänni (teat), maitorauhanen (mammary gland)
Greek: θήλη f
German: Zitze f, Euter (Bovine)
Hindi: स�तन
Italian: capezzolo m
Malayalam: മ�ല (mula), സ��തന� (sthanam)
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Marathi: स�तन
Norwegian: pupp m
Polish: cyc f, cycek f, pier� f
Russian:
* teat: �о�ок m (sosók)
* mammary gland: моло�на� железа f (moló�naja železá)
Portuguese: teta f
Scottish Gaelic: cìoch f
Spanish: teta f
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trans-top|A woman's breast
Armenian: Õ®Õ«Õ®, Õ®Õ®Õ¥Ö� p
Danish: bryst c
Dutch: tiet f
Estonian: tiss
Finnish: tissi
French: nichon m
German: Titte f, Brust f
Gilbertese: mamma
Greek: β�ζι n
Interlingua: tetta
Italian: tetta f (slang), poppa f (informal, slang), seno m, mammella f
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Malayalam: മ�ല (mula), സ��തന� (sthanam)
Norwegian: pupp m
Polish: cyc m, cycek m
Portuguese: teta f
Russian: �и��ка f (tít'ka)
Scottish Gaelic: cìoch f
Spanish: macoca f, melón m
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ttbc|Malaysian: tetek

Etymology 2
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap, "blow for blow", from "tip", + "tap"; compare also dialectal tint for tant.

Noun
en-noun

1. archaic A light blow or hit (now usually in phrase tit for tat).

Etymology 3
Probably of Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Icelandic titlingur �sparrow�, dialectal Norwegain titling �small stockfish�.

Noun
en-noun

1. archaic A small horse; a nag.

#:* 1759, he was resolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more sobriety. � Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 28)

1. archaic A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
2. A small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the northern hemisphere.

Translations
trans-top|a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae
Belarusian: ��н��а
Bosnian: sjenica f
Chinese: 山�
Croatian: sjenica
Czech: sýkora f
Danish: mejse g|Danish
Dutch: mees f
Estonian tihane
Faroese: títa f
Finnish: tiainen
Frisian: mies
German: Meise f
Greek: �α�αδί��α f
Italian: cincia f
Latin: parus
Low Saxon: Mees� f, Meesch f
Lower Sorbian: sykora, sykorka
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Norwegian: meis m?
Polish: sikora f
Russian: �ини�а f (sinítsa)
Serbian: �ени�а (senica)
Slovak: sýkorka
Slovene: sinica f
Spanish: carbonero m
Swedish: mes c, tita c
Ukrainian: �ини�� велика (sinicja velika)
Upper Sorbian: sykorka, sykora
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trans-top|a small horse
Polish: kucyk m
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trans-top|a young girl
Polish: dupa f, dupka f, sikorka f
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ttbc|Albanian: trishtili
ttbc|Basque: kaskabeltz
ttbc|Breton: pennglaou
ttbc|Bulgarian: гол�м �иниге� (goljam siniger)
ttbc|Catalan: mallerenga
ttbc|Esperanto: granda paruo
ttbc|Faroese: stórtíta
ttbc|French: mésange f
ttbc|Friulian: parussule, parusse
ttbc|Gallegan: ferreiriño abelleiro
ttbc|Hungarian: cinke
ttbc|Irish: meantán mór
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ttbc|Ladin: mosela
ttbc|Latvian: liel� zīlīte
ttbc|Lithuanian: zyl�
ttbc|Macedonian: �ипка (sipka)
ttbc|Maltese: fjorentin
ttbc|Occitan: mesenga
ttbc|Romanian: piţigoi
ttbc|Romansh: maset
ttbc|Sami: gaccet
ttbc|Sardinian: acutzaferru, tzerri-tzerri, béccidi
ttbc|Scottish Gaelic: currac-baintighearna
ttbc|Turkish: ba�tankara
ttbc|Welsh: titw mawr
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Derived terms
bearded tit
great tit
tit warbler

Category:English palindromes
Category:English words with multiple etymologies

Danish

Adverb
tit

1. often

Noun
tit n

1. glimpse

Category:Danish adverbs
Category:Danish nouns

Faroese
fo-decl-pers-pron

Pronoun
tit

1. you (plural)

-

Category:Faroese pronouns

Irish

Pronunciation
IPA|[tʲitʲ]

Verb
tit (verbal noun titim, past participle tite)

1. to fall

Category:Irish verbs

Tok Pisin

Etymology
From the English word teeth.

Noun
tit

1. tooth

Category:Tok Pisin nouns
Category:tpi:Anatomy

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology
From English teeth.

Noun
tit

1. tooth

Category:Birds
Category:Torres Strait Creole nouns
Category:Vulgarities
Category:tcs:Anatomy

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