tit

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person's breast or nipple. in-plural,slang,vulgar
    — 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.
  2. A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat). archaic,slang,vulgar
  3. A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere. slang,vulgar
  4. An animal's teat or udder. slang,vulgar
    — 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.
  5. Any of various other small passerine birds. slang,vulgar
  6. An idiot; a fool. Ireland,UK,derogatory,slang,vulgar
    — Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
  7. A small horse; a nag. archaic,slang,vulgar
    — […] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.
  8. A police officer; a "tithead". Ireland,UK,derogatory,slang,vulgar
  9. A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy. archaic,slang,vulgar
    — "What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"
  10. A morsel; a bit. slang,vulgar
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To strike lightly, tap, pat. intransitive,obsolete,slang,transitive,vulgar
    — Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
  2. To taunt, to reproach. obsolete,slang,transitive,vulgar
    — 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.

词形变化

tits plural tet alternative tits plural tits present,singular,third-person titting participle,present titted participle,past titted past tits plural

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 2
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
词源 3
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).
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