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tit

UK/tɪt/ US/ˈtɪt/ fairly common slang uk

noun

1.

either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

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2.
3.

small insectivorous birds

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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).

Phrases

  • arse about tit
  • arse over tit
  • bitch tits
  • calm your tits
  • cold as a witch's tit
  • cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra
  • electric tit
  • get one's tits in a wringer
  • tit lok

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