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tit

1  [tit] ,
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–noun
1. a titmouse.
2. any of various other small birds.
3. Archaic. a girl or young woman; hussy.
4. Archaic. a small or poor horse; nag.
Origin:
1540–50; repr. ME tite- (in titemose titmouse ); c. Norw tite titmouse; akin to ON tittr tack, pin. See tit 2

tit

2  [tit] ,
–noun
1. a teat.
2. Slang: Vulgar. a breast.
Origin:
bef. 1100; ME titte, OE titt; c. MLG, MD titte, G Zitze, Norw titta; akin to tit 1

tit

3  [tit] ,
–noun
tit for tat.
Origin:
perh. var. of tip 4

Tit.

 
Titus.

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Ti⋅tus

  [tahy-tuhs]
–noun
1. a disciple and companion of the apostle Paul, to whom Paul is supposed to have addressed an Epistle.
2. this New Testament Epistle. Abbreviation: Tit.
3. (Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus) a.d. 40?–81, Roman emperor 79–81.
4. Tatius.
5. a male given name.
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tit 1   (tĭt)   
n.  

  1. A titmouse.

  2. Any of various small, similar or related birds.

adj.   New England & Upstate New York
Small; undersized.

[Short for titmouse. Adj., Middle English tit-, as in titmose, titmouse; see titmouse.]
Tit is an old Germanic word for "small" and is used in various northern European languages to refer to small objects, animals, or people, especially girls—for example, titta is a Norwegian dialect word for "little girl." The word is most common in American English in combinations that denote various small birds, such as the titmouse or tomtit. A titman in the 19th century could mean a small or stunted person, as Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation "a race of tit-men." Tit and titman are still used in New England, mostly by farmers to refer to the runt of a litter of pigs.
tit 2   (tĭt)   
n.  

  1. Vulgar Slang A woman's breast.

  2. A teat.


[Middle English, from Old English titt.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

tit  (1)
"breast," O.E. titt (a variant of teat). But the modern slang tits (pl.), attested from 1928, seems to be a recent reinvention from teat, used without awareness that it is a throwback to the original form. Titty, however, is on record from 1746 as "a dial. and nursery dim. of teat."

tit  (2)
1548, "any small animal or object" (as in compound forms such as titmouse, tomtit, etc.); also used of small horses. Similar words in related senses are found in Scand. (cf. Icel. tittr, Norw. tita "a little bird"), but the connection and origin are obscure; perhaps, as OED suggests, the word is merely suggestive of something small. Used figuratively of persons after 1734, but earlier for "a girl or young woman," usually in deprecatory sense of "a hussy, minx" (1599). Tit for tat (1556) is possibly an alteration of tip for tap "blow for blow," from tip (v.3) "tap" + tap "touch lightly."
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Main Entry: tit.
Function: abbreviation
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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