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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A titmouse.
  2. n. Any of various small, similar or related birds.
  3. adj. New England & Upstate New York Small; undersized.
  4. n. Vulgar Slang A woman's breast.
  5. n. A teat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. An abbreviation of title; [capitalized] of Titus (a book of the New Testament).
  3. n. A teat. See teat.
  4. n. One of several small birds. Specifically
  5. n. A small or poor horse.
  6. n. A child; a girl; a young woman: a depreciatory term.
  7. n. A bit; morsel.
  8. 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.
  9. To pull tightly.
  10. n. A pull.
  11. A Middle English variant of tite.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mammary gland, teat.
  2. n. slang, vulgar A woman's breast.
  3. n. UK, pejorative, slang An idiot; a fool.
  4. n. archaic A light blow or hit (now usually in phrase tit for tat).
  5. n. A small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the northern hemisphere.
  6. n. Any of various other small passerine birds.
  7. n. archaic A small horse; a nag.
  8. n. archaic A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A small horse.
  2. n. A woman; -- used in contempt.
  3. n. A morsel; a bit.
  4. n. Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridæ and Leiotrichidæ; a titmouse.
  5. n. The European meadow pipit; a titlark.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
  2. n. small insectivorous birds
  3. n. the small projection of a mammary gland

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap ("blow for blow"), from tip, + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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  • 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

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