What does "tit" mean?
A person's breast or nipple.
Tit
/tɪt/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A person's breast or nipple.
- Grammar: tit is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: titmouse, bag, bantam, banty.
- Usage evidence: Outside it's cold as a witch's tit.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person's breast or nipple. in-plural, slang, vulgar
"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."
- 2 A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat). archaic, slang, vulgar
- 3 A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere. slang, vulgar
- 4 small insectivorous birds wordnet
- 5 An animal's teat or udder. slang, vulgar
"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."
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- 6 Any of various other small passerine birds. slang, vulgar
- 7 either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman wordnet
- 8 An idiot; a fool. Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar
"Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!"
- 9 A small horse; a nag. archaic, slang, vulgar
"[…] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety."
- 10 the small projection of a mammary gland wordnet
- 11 A police officer; a "tithead". Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar
- 12 A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy. archaic, slang, vulgar
""What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?""
- 13 A morsel; a bit. slang, vulgar
"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."
Verb
- 1 To strike lightly, tap, pat. intransitive, obsolete, slang, transitive, vulgar
"Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?"
- 2 To taunt, to reproach. obsolete, slang, transitive, vulgar
"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."
Example
"Outside it's cold as a witch's tit."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "tit"?
Common synonyms include: titmouse, bag, bantam, banty, boob, boobs.
How do you use "tit" in a sentence?
Outside it's cold as a witch's tit.
How do you pronounce "tit"?
Pronounced /tɪt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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).
Etymology 2
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
Etymology 3
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).