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tit

/tɪt/ symbol

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  1. ISO 639-3 language code for Tinigua.

noun

  1. A person's breast or nipple.
  2. An animal's teat or udder.
  3. An idiot; a fool.
    Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!

noun

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

verb

  1. To strike lightly, tap, pat.
  2. To taunt, to reproach.

Origin

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).

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