Dictionary

tit en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /tɪt/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. (in-plural, slang, vulgar) A person's breast or nipple.
   • Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits." 2006, Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision:
   • I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits. 2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 13:
   • Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits. 1987, “A Conflict of Interest”, in Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, directors, Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), BBC2:
2. (slang, vulgar) An animal's teat or udder.
   • A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table. 1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19:
3. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar) An idiot; a fool.
   • John Watson (to Sherlock Holmes): It's Lestrade. Says they're all coming over here right now. Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit. Which is a lot of people. 2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 00:52:46-00:52:55
   • “I asked Nandor and Colin Robinson to come with me on the first day because I didn't want the class to look too empty. But now I cannot get those two tits to leave.” 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (5:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
   • I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two. 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Errol (Andy Beckwith):
   • Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
   • “What did you say to the cops?” “I told them everything about the smuggling ring.” “Why the fuck did you do that?” “They were nice to me.” “They’re always nice to people they want to get information from, you dumb tit.” 2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 234:
4. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar) A police officer; a "tithead".

Forms

Deriveds

arse about tit · tits-up · tit tape · get one's tits in a wringer · press tits · off one's tits · keep one's tits on · useless as tits on a bull · bitch tits · bitchtits · calm your tits · suck tits · titjob · useless as tits on a boar hog · zipper tits · titsucker · tit mag · titsy · tit up · tits up · tits out for the lads · titty · conetit · titwank · suck hind tit · titman · cold as a witch's tit · tits and ass · mantit · tit wank · hind tit · cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra · titless · tit fuck · tit juice · man tit · electric tit · tittie · arse over tit · tits and bums · tit about · useful as tits on a bull · get on someone's tits · sugar tit · get your tits out for the lads · sugartits

Relateds

tittie · titty

Synonyms

addlehead · clown · donkey dick · schmo · clodpate · silly · addle-brain · zany · jackass · tomfool · baboon · fuck-knuckle · shitwit · dunderhead · nincompoop · dumbling · peabrain · nimrod · turkey · yo-yo · asswipe · chowderhead · buffoon · simpleton · moron · wally · muggins · galoot · loggerhead · spanner · lunkhead · knothead · idiot · blubberbrain · fopdoodle · juggins · dummkopf · goofy · ass · gomer · bufflehead · airhead · dork · deadhead · wazzock · meathead · cittern-head · imbecile · space cadet · wazzer · lummox · Alternative spelling of dumbass. · wantwit · farthead · dumbfuck · monkey · goof · bimbo · dimbo · goose · ding dong · thickskull · buttbreath · nitwit · jellybrain · drongo · mongtard · twit · doodle · blockhead · tard · dumbshit · boob · lunk · dim bulb · pinhead · birdbrain · thickhead · knucklehead · goober · bubble brain · shitneck · addle pate · numbskull · brickhead · stupid-head · jughead · mouth breather · maroon · dingleberry · dumbfucker · dunce · fucktard · gudgeon · witless wonder · beanbrain · dumble · dingbat · simp · sap · brainlet · retard · nit · chump · doofus · berk · ninnyhammer · dumb bunny · mutt · lamebrain · fleabrain · ha'porth · cretin · lackwit · donut · inbred · thicko · bubblehead · fathead · dildo · saphead · momo · dummy · ignoramus · clot · gimboid · fuckwit · dumbo · Vulgar: · goon · dullard · gorbuson · dope · ninny · twat · putz · dipshit · assclown · dumbhead · stupid · plank · dimwit · asshat · mushhead · muttonhead · tonto · dolt · toolbox · jackaninny · fool · eejit · Charlie · bonehead · asshead · halfwit · mome · prat · dumbbell · smooth brain · oaf · fenderhead · bozo · beetlehead · dumbnut · log · Boeotian · jerk · plonker · doof · gonk · cuckoo · tosspot · doldrum · goosecap · sot · pillock · drivel · dingwad · chucklehead · clod · shitbrain · doofoid · dipstick · peagoose · dimbus · pigwidgeon · beetlebrain · drool bucket · dip · mongoloid · nincom · stupe · asstard · mental midget · noddy · featherbrain · put · snapperhead · hammerhead · noodlehead · peckerhead · dumb cluck · crackhead · shithead · goofball · meatball · dunderpate

Translations (145)

de Zitze (a mammary gland, teat) · pl cycek (a mammary gland, teat) · hy ծիծ ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · mi titi (a mammary gland, teat) · de Titte ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ru до́йки ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fo bróst ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ro mamelon (a mammary gland, teat) · sh бра̀давица (a mammary gland, teat) · nn pupp (a mammary gland, teat) · cmn 咪咪 ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ko 젖 ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ar بِزّ ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · pl pierś (a mammary gland, teat) · uk ци́цька ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · be сі́ська ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · gd cìoch ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fa ممه (a mammary gland, teat) · sq gji (a mammary gland, teat) · sh си̏са ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · mr स्तन (a mammary gland, teat) · ml മുല ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · cs prs ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · sh (sisna) bràdavica (a mammary gland, teat) · sv bröstvårta (a mammary gland, teat) · pt mama (a mammary gland, teat) · id susu ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ja おっぱい ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · da bryst ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fi nänni (teat) (a mammary gland, teat) · eo cico (a mammary gland, teat) · ja 馬鹿 (idiot, fool) · eo mamo (a mammary gland, teat) · de Idiot (idiot, fool) · grc τιτθίον ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · cmn 波 ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ml സ്തനം (a mammary gland, teat) · cs bradavka (a mammary gland, teat) · gl mama (a mammary gland, teat) · bg ци́ца ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fr lolo ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · hy ծծեր ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ja 乳 (a mammary gland, teat) · ia tetta ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · it tetta (a mammary gland, teat) · nb pupp (a mammary gland, teat) · hi चूची ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · scn minna ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ja 乳房 (a mammary gland, teat) · fo boppa ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nn brystvorte (a mammary gland, teat) · id toket ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · es melón ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fi maitorauhanen (a mammary gland, teat) · gl teta ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · it seno ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · es macoca ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nb pupp ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fr néné ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · de Brust ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · hi स्तन (a mammary gland, teat) · da pat ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · gl teta (a mammary gland, teat) · arz بز ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ru си́ська ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · bg идиот (idiot, fool) · bg ци́цка ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · hu csöcs ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nb brystvorte (a mammary gland, teat) · ar بُزّ ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · grc τιτθός ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ckb مەمک (a mammary gland, teat) · ms puting (a mammary gland, teat) · lt papas ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nl tet ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · lv pups ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · pl cyc ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · pl cyc (a mammary gland, teat) · ko 젖꼭지 ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · pl cycek ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ru сосо́к (a mammary gland, teat) · gil mamma ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · sw jegi (a mammary gland, teat) · sv tutte ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · de Blödmann (idiot, fool) · ro țâță ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fr nichon ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · se čižži ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ja ぱいおつ ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · bg ци́ца (a mammary gland, teat) · ro sfârc (a mammary gland, teat) · pt peito ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · de Euter (a mammary gland, teat) · de Möpse ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fi tissi ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · el βυζί ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fa ممه ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ro sân ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · cs cecek ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · mk цицка ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · sh sȉsa ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · pt teta ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · it mammella ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ru моло́чная железа́ (a mammary gland, teat) · id tetek ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · cmn 乳房 (a mammary gland, teat) · it tetta ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fr glande mammaire (a mammary gland, teat) · es teta (a mammary gland, teat) · yi ציצע ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · sv patte ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nl tiet ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · es teta ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · fr nibard ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ga brollach ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · it poppa ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ru буфера́ ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · hu emlő (a mammary gland, teat) · ms kopek ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · yi ציצע (a mammary gland, teat) · hu cici ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ml സ്തനം ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · el θήλη (a mammary gland, teat) · da brystvorte (a mammary gland, teat) · it zizza ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · it zinna ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · vo blötatät (a mammary gland, teat) · et tiss ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ga faireog mhamach (a mammary gland, teat) · cmn 乳頭 /乳头 (a mammary gland, teat) · ja ぱいぱい ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · bn স্তন (a mammary gland, teat) · sk cecok ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nn pupp ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nn daier f du ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · cs prso ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ms tetek ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · sv bröst ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · yue 波 ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · ar حَلَمَة (a mammary gland, teat) · pt teta (a mammary gland, teat) · gd cìoch (a mammary gland, teat) · ru ти́тька ((slang, vulgar) a woman's breast) · nl tiet (a mammary gland, teat) · ml മുല (a mammary gland, teat)

tit en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /tɪt/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.

Meanings

1. (archaic, slang, vulgar) A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).

Forms

tit en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /tɪt/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete, slang, transitive, vulgar) To strike lightly, tap, pat.
   • Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that? 1897 [1607], John Webster, “Northward Hoe”, in The Dramatic Works of John Webster, page 203:
2. (obsolete, slang, transitive, vulgar) To taunt, to reproach.
   • they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand. 1623, James Mabbe, The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán:

Forms

tit en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /tɪt/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).

Meanings

1. (slang, vulgar) A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. (slang, vulgar) Any of various other small passerine birds.
3. (archaic, slang, vulgar) A small horse; a nag.
   • I shall keep my eye open, and the first pretty little tit I see that I think will suit you, I shall make the guv'nor buy. 2019, George Manville Fenn, Cursed by a Fortune:
   • Gossiping, and smoothing the horse's mane down with his hand, "A nice little tit," said the man. 1862, Robert Kemp Philp, The Family friend, page 362:
   • […] the benighted stranger […] might have easily […] mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard. 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:
   • […] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety. 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 66:
   • Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad looking tit,” said St. Leger, as they went along. 1854, Charles James Collins, The life and adventures of Dick Diminy, page 156:
4. (archaic, slang, vulgar) A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
   • "What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?" 1843, Charles James C. Davidson, Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India:
   • What, I suppose, Mr. Loader, you will be for your old friend the black ey'd girl, from Rosemary Lane. Ha ha! Well, 'tis a merry little tit. A thousand pities she's such a reprobate! 2013, Vic Gatrell, The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age, page xcix:
   • But I don't mind; she's a pretty little tit, and Dick has taught her to call me uncle. 1887, George Manville Fenn, The Master of the Ceremonies, page 44:
5. (slang, vulgar) A morsel; a bit.
   • Being drunk , he remembers not a tit of life before the drink came well home. It is not that he sees the past mistily; he does not see at all. He lives then only in as much of the present as the word of his master for the time being[…] 1951, Thomas MacDermot, Orange Valley and Other Poems, page 66:
   • The one farthest from the river was the largest and tallest; they decreased in size toward the river, until the fourth was little more than a tit of rock jutting up out of the prairie. 1999, Benjamin Capps, A Woman of the People, page 78:
   • Would we understand woman if we took her whole instead of tit by tit? 1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 236:
   • Now if you can shew so neat a foot, ( shewing her shoe ) —Parlez moi de ça : —I suppose I was not noble enough for this squire; he must have a bit a blood, a tit of quality — but I shall be a countess soon, and a mighty good sort of countess I shall make. 1813, James Lawrence, The Englishman at Verdun; Or the Prisoner of Peace, page 44:

Forms

Deriveds

crow-tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · telltale tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · long-tailed tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Japanese tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · penduline tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Sichuan tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · New Zealand tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · tit-tyrant (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Palawan tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · rufous-naped tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · yellow-browed tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · wrentit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · sultan tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Carp's tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · miombo tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · stripe-breasted tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · coal tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · titmouse (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · grey crested tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Père David's tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Indian black-lored tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · white-browed tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · blue tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · tom-tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · dusky tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · crested tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · rufous-vented tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · white-naped tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · tom tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · chestnut-bellied tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · shriketit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · varied tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · oven tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · white-bellied tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · grey tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · somber tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · acacia tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · white-backed black tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · titlark (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · ashy tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · fire-capped tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · wrentit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · willow tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · white-fronted tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Iriomote tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · cinnamon-breasted tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · yellow-bellied tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · white-shouldered black tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · great tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · yellow-cheeked tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · European penduline tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · black-crested tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · sombre tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · rufous-bellied tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · yellow tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · tit-warbler (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Himalayan black-lored tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · tit-flycatcher (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · cinereous tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · bottletit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · tit-babbler (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · tit-spinetail (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Owston's tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · elegant tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · green-backed tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · white-winged black tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · African blue tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · titling (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · azure tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · Caspian tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · marsh tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · bushtit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · bearded tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · black-bibbed tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · titlike (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · southern black tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · scrubtit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3) · red-throated tit (terms derived from tit Etymology 3)

Relateds

tit lok

Translations (19)

ro căluț (a small horse) · hu csikó (a small horse) · pl kucyk (a small horse) · pl dupka (a young girl) · hu paci (a small horse) · ru конёк (a small horse) · cs koník (a small horse) · ru лоша́дка (a small horse) · ro fetică (a young girl) · hu csibe (a young girl) · ro fetiță (a young girl) · bg конче (a small horse) · pl dupa (a young girl) · ar بزَة (a young girl) · pl sikorka (a young girl) · ro fetișoară (a young girl) · hu csirke (a young girl) · ro căișor (a small horse) · bg девойче (a young girl)