tit

(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.]

REGIONAL NOTE   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.

tit² (tĭt)
n.

1. Vulgar Slang. A woman's breast.
2. A teat.

[Middle English, from Old English titt.]

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thrups (thrupenny bits) rhymes with [offensive] tits
breasts: plenty of thrups on show

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1. tit
   noun, dated, derog
   
   A woman. (1599 —) .
   E. R. Eddison The Demons,...since they had a strong loathing for such ugly tits and stale old trots, would no doubt hang her up or disembowel her (1922).
   
   [Cf. earlier sense, small horse; apparently an onomatopoeic formation, as a term for something small.]
2. tit
   noun, sing.
   
   1:
   a: pl. A woman's breasts; also in (1928 —) .
   OZ Mary Anne Shelley, with the best tits off-off-Broadway (1969).
   
   b: : to get on one's tits to irritate one intensely. (1945 —) .
   J. Wilson This Sherlock Holmes act of yours gets right on my tits (1977).
   
   c: : tit(s) and ass (or arse) crude female sexuality, esp. as displayed on stage, in films, newspapers, magazines, etc. Also tits and bums. (1972 —) .
   Sunday Times Ugly George, America's prime TV porn artist (who invites women to undress for his video camera), with his 'tit n' ass' cable channel (1982).
   
   
   2: orig services' A push-button, esp. one used to fire a gun or release a bomb. (1942 —) .
   A. Price They've built this mock-up in the Museum....You press the tit, and the lights go out (1972).
   
   [Variant of teat noun.]
3. tit
   noun
   
   A foolish or ineffectual person. (1947 —) .
   S. Wilson We always took a gun, and it kept me quite alert, not wishing to make a tit of myself in front of the laird (1978).
   
   [Origin uncertain; perh. from tit² noun 1.]

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - mejse

2.
n. - brystvorte, pat

3.

idioms:

• tit for tat    lige for lige, øje for øje

Nederlands (Dutch)
mees, stommerd, tiet

Français (French)
1.
n. - (Zool) mésange

2.
n. - néné (vulg), enfoiré

3.

idioms:

• tit for tat    un prêté pour un rendu

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Meise

2.
n. - (vulg.) Titte, (vulg.) Zitze, (Slang) Trottel

3.

idioms:

• tit for tat    Gleiches mit Gleichem, Wurst wider Wurst, wie du mir, so ich dir

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - θηλή, ρώγα μαστού, (ορνιθ.) αιγίθαλος, παπαδίτσα, (αργκό) βυζί, μαστάρι
abbr. - Τίτος, τίτλος

idioms:

• tit for tat    μία σου και μία μου, οφθαλμόν αντί οφθαλμού

Italiano (Italian)
mammella, poppa, cincia

idioms:

• tit for tat    la pariglia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - seios (m pl), mamilo (m), mulher (f)

idioms:

• tit for tat    pagar na mesma moeda

Русский (Russian)
легкий удар, сосок, (жаргон) титьки, лошаденка, синица

idioms:

• tit for tat    "око за око", равная отплата одним за другое

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - herrerillo

2.
n. - pezón

3.

idioms:

• tit for tat    devolver la pelota, devolver golpe por golpe

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mes (zool.), bröst(vårta), tutte, knapp, fåntratt, nolla
abbr. - titel, Titus

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 山雀的, 山雀

idioms:

• tit for tat    针锋相对

2. 山雀

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 山雀

2.
n. - 山雀的
adj. - 山雀

idioms:

• tit for tat    針鋒相對

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 박새과의 새

2.
n. - 젖꼭지, 바보, 유방

3. 경타

idioms:

• tit for tat    맞받아 서로 응수하기, 오고 가는 말

日本語 (Japanese)
adv. - しっぺ返しとして

idioms:

• tit for tat    しっぺ返し

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) فرس, صغير أو ردئ, حلمه (اختصار) ضحكه صغيرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ירגזי (ציפור-שיר)‬
n. - ‮חזה אישה, שד, פטמה, ציץ‬
tit for tat - ‮עין תחת עין, מידה כנגד מידה, תגמול‬

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