Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A titmouse.
- n. Any of various small, similar or related birds.
- adj. New England & Upstate New York Small; undersized.
- n. Vulgar Slang A woman's breast.
- n. A teat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In mech., a round projection on a tool or other piece to serve as a guide. A tit is usually made on the end of a counterbore, so that the hole made by it shall be concentric with the hole which it is desired to enlarge.
- n. An abbreviation of title; [capitalized] of Titus (a book of the New Testament).
- n. A teat. See teat.
- n. One of several small birds. Specifically
- n. A small or poor horse.
- n. A child; a girl; a young woman: a depreciatory term.
- n. A bit; morsel.
- n. In the phrase tit for tat (literally, in the original form tip for tap, ‘blow for blow’), a retaliatory return; an equivalent by way of repartee or answer: as, to give a person tit for tat in a dispute or a war of wit.
- To pull tightly.
- n. A pull.
- A Middle English variant of tite.
Wiktionary
- n. A mammary gland, teat.
- n. slang, vulgar A woman's breast.
- n. UK, pejorative, slang An idiot; a fool.
- n. archaic A light blow or hit (now usually in phrase tit for tat).
- n. A small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the northern hemisphere.
- n. Any of various other small passerine birds.
- n. archaic A small horse; a nag.
- n. archaic A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small horse.
- n. A woman; -- used in contempt.
- n. A morsel; a bit.
- n. Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families
Paridæ andLeiotrichidæ ; a titmouse. - n. The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
WordNet 3.0
- n. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- n. small insectivorous birds
- n. the small projection of a mammary gland
Etymologies
- Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap ("blow for blow"), from tip, + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant. (Wiktionary)
- Short for titmouse. Adj., Middle English tit-, as in titmose, titmouse; see titmouse.Middle English, from Old English titt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One approach for the Right is to engage in tit for tat.”
From Galbraith to Spitzer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In an effort to avert a possible trade war that could damage the global economic recovery, the Group of 20 members also pledged not to engage in tit-for-tat currency devaluations.”
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“There exists a "bad equilibrium" in tit-for-tat, wherein once someone has transgressed, one party has to be willing to take a short-term loss relative to the other party to re-establish trust.”
“If Obama supporters are going to engage in tit for tat ping pong arguments and insults, believe me it will get nowhere. republicans are better at that!”
“The Somalis on the CIA payroll engaged in tit-for-tat exchanges of kidnappings and assassinations with extremists.”
“He is focused on winning the long game not short term tit for tat.”
Obama Took Heat Early On For Being Too Soft On Hillary, Remember?
“I recently read Axelrod's "Evolution of Cooperation" and was struck by how effective a long term tit-for-tat strategy would be politically.”
“This strategy is usually called tit-for-tat: You scratch my back, I scratch yours; you don't scratch my back, I don't scratch yours.”
“At the same time, the number of Iraqis found slain, apparently in tit-for-tat killings by Shiite and Sunni extremists, has sharply increased in western neighborhoods.”
“Described in 1871 by A. Hume, the Ground tit is a weak-flying brown passerine of the Tibetan plateau, often superficially likened to a wheatear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tit’.
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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Palindromes
tenet, �?ΙΨΟ�? Α�?ΟΜΗΜΑΤ..., rotator, kayak, tattarrattat, detartrated, racecar, level, step on no pets, fall leaves after..., level, madam, level!, reviver and 108 more...
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 138 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
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buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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barrels of cocks
werdz
niggerbaby, niggerhouse, lol, mage, tit, dragonslayer, fuck, ninety-one, lolcat, diddy, nitty, what and 3 more...
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Palindromes
left to right to right to left.
esssse, dad, mom, tit, tat, madam, lewd did i live a..., aibohphobia, bob, harassarah, abba, detartrated
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Animal kings
crocodilian, lagomorph, ovine, bovine, lupine, minatory, arthropod, zoömimetic, nag, pronk, entomology, buffalo and 34 more...
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sex organs
funny names for the private parts.
( noun, randomness, funny )
also see: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/a...hooha, wee wee, twat, ding dong, ding-a-ling, prick, wang, schlong, willy, rod, bum, box and 29 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DELIGHT
Words a dyslexic can't get wrong: Palindromes
retartrater, redivider, level, noon, rotor, civic, peep, eke, deed, tenet, reviver, hannah and 145 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tit.

reesetee Thanks, VO--I was probably anticipating a flurry of delightful wisecracks from other Wordies. I do like the phrase "spectacular pre-WeirdNetting," though. :-)
Bilby, that hurts just thinking about it. Nov 29, 2007
bilby Soft? Fleshy? What on earth are they used for? Nov 29, 2007
vanishedone Or for tat?
Edit: hang on; we didn't have WeirdNet nine months ago, since I arrived before it did and that wasn't so long ago; so it just looks as though reesetee was answering the definition. A spectacular pre-WeirdNetting. Nov 29, 2007
reesetee The bird, you pervert. ;-) Feb 13, 2007