Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A nipple of the mammary gland; a mamilla.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The mammary nipple; the tip of the mammary gland, through which milk passes out, or is drawn out by sucking or squeezing; the pap of a woman or the dug of a beast. In woman the teat is a delicate, elastic, erectile tissue of a pink or brownish tint, in which the lactiferous ducts come together to open at the end. Throughout the Mammalia the mammary glands are furnished with teats, except in the nippleless monotremes. Teats are generally single, one for each gland, but may be several, as the four of a cow's compound udder.
- n. Hence, the mammary gland; the breast; the udder.
- n. Something resembling a teat, as a nozle.
Wiktionary
- n. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
- n. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
- n. (Mach.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the small projection of a mammary gland
Etymologies
- From French tette, of Germanic origin. It replaced Old English titt, which survives as English tit. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze, "teat". (Wiktionary)
- Middle English tete, from Old French, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Meanwhile this teat is being used to keep contractor teams fed while waiting for the Next Great Thing.”
Explaining NASA Cost Overruns and Delays to Congress - NASA Watch
“Biden saying what he did and the media latching onto it like a pup starving for a teat is what allowed Obama to make the veiled proimse to leave Israel in the lurch if it acts imprudently.”
“As long as the government teat is so engorged, the suckers will have at it – and us.”
“Although the public discussion revolved around Simpson's use of one of the seven dirty words you can't say on TV -- an odd word choice for a guy from a farm state, who should be naturally inclined to use the word "teat" -- the real story is in Simpson's seething scorn for the entire idea of the Social Security system.”
“May 2008 (CDT) hey hay, happy holiday, cheers to you, bom apetite - which rhymes with 'teat' -”
“I don ` t know about you, but my teat is a little sore.”
“This cavity is connected with the exterior through the milk duct in the teat, which is more or less tightly closed by the circular sphincter muscles, thus preventing the milk from flowing out.”
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying
“The rudiment of the teat is a depression or invagination of the epidermis from the bottom of which six stout hairs arise.”
“The swapping of "teat" (the commonly-used word for an animal's milk-giving gland) for the word that refers to a woman's breast was Simpson's own alteration, probably intended to disturb the female recipient of his comment.”
The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote
“I also imagine that very rarely did these tales ever include the word "teat".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teat’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Naked
Words relating to getting naked, being naked, the commonly naked, nakedness (partial or complete), and similar.
denude, strip, stripper, harlot, Cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, hooker, divest, unfrock, unclothe, disrobe and 115 more...
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Body bio- baby!
hemorrhage, prognosis, blowsabella, somatotype, ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic, labia minora, labia majora, entopic, ectopic, ectopic pregnancy and 65 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Least Favorite Words
blog, painterly, choicest, evildoer, perpetrator, murmur, gab, schmooze, macerate, feeble, lusty, boobs and 72 more...
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C. Montgomery Burns
slugabed, layabout, poppycock, goldbrickers, troglodyte, blue blazes, bawdy, shenanigans, orang-utan, blast, excellent, dame fortune and 78 more...
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the opposite of sympathy
words I dislike, rationally or not.
money, paddy, goo, shout, forte, nihilistic, emo, indie, blubber, pathetic, proem, blithe and 17 more...
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justchad's Words
chad, cow, cattle, book, books, flickr, amd, motherboard, desktop, movies, music, musical and 14 more...
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mad4books's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for teat.
mad4books without thinking of the movie _Meet the Parents_. Dec 9, 2006