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Teat

//tiːt// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.

    "Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers."

  2. 2
    the small projection of a mammary gland wordnet
  3. 3
    Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
  4. 4
    An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *tittā, *tittō, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Compare Old High German zizza ("teat"; modern German Zitze), whence also Italian zizza (“teat”). It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).

Etymology 2

Probably an Americanized spelling of German Thiet, itself a variant of Thiede.

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