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Brit. /ˈtiːtiː/, U.S. /tᵻˈti/, /ˈtiti/
Forms: 1700s tittee, 1800s– teetee, 1800s– titi.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish titi.
Etymology: Probably < Spanish titi (1739), imitative of the clicking sound produced by these monkeys.Compare French titi (A. v. Humboldt 1810; compare quot. 1832).
In early use: any of various small New World monkeys, esp. squirrel monkeys of the genus Saimiri. In later use: spec. any monkey of, or formerly of, the genus Callicebus, having long fur and a long tail, and native to the tropical forests of South America. Also titi monkey.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Callicebus (titi)
mico1604
sagoin1607
cagui1753
titi1756
Moloch1827
titi1851
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 489 The Tittee. This creature is very small... The head is bare about the ears and eyes.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xvii. 230 The titi or Simia sciurea seems to have been a special favourite with Humboldt.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 49 The Collared Teetee..is of a dark reddish-brown... It inhabits Brazil.
1896 List Animals Zool. Soc. 40 Genus Callithrix... Moloch Teetee..Black-fronted Teetee..Brown Teetee..Grey Teetee..Black-handed Teetee.
1927 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 19 509 The British Museum has received..some further specimens of..the Yellow-handed Titis.
1976 Nature 23 Sept. 321/1 Titi monkeys..remain paired throughout the year.
2013 New Scientist 3 Aug. 16/2 [Social monogamy] occurs in over a quarter of primate species, including humans, gibbons and New World monkeys such as titis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

titin.2

Brit. /ˈtʌɪtʌɪ/, /ˈtiːtiː/, U.S. /ˈtaɪˌtaɪ/
Forms:

α. 1800s ty ty, 1800s– ti-ti, 1800s– titi, 1800s– tyty, 1900s tietie, 1900s– ty-ty.

β. 1800s– tight-eye, 1800s– tighteye.

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. A North American Indian origin has been suggested, but is difficult to substantiate.In the β. forms with folk-etymological remodelling after tight adj. and eye n.1; in these forms often used with reference to buckwheat and leatherwood trees as part of thickets (see sense 1), apparently on account of their impenetrability.
U.S.
1. Either of the evergreen shrubs or small trees of the family Cyrillaceae, of the south-eastern United States: the buckwheat tree, Cliftonia monophylla (more fully black titi), and the leatherwood, Cyrilla racemiflora (more fully black titi, red titi, white titi). Also attributive as titi swamp, titi thicket.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > other North American trees or shrubs
black-gum1709
white gum1709
red fir1722
Quebec oak1768
Pennsylvania fir tree1770
Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple1785
Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785
pepperbush1785
pepperbush1785
southern pine1796
titi1827
palo blanco1829
mock orange1860
palo fierro1860
mountain laurel1866
Joshua1867
red cedar1872
porkwood1884
guajillo1886
mountain balm1924
1827 J. L. Williams View W. Florida 53 These galls are usually covered with titi and other andromedas, loblolly and other laurels, vaccinums and vines.
1860 A. W. Chapman Flora Southern U.S. 273 Cliftonia, Banks. Titi.
1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. III. 147 Buckwheat Tree..an evergreen shrub in the gulf states... Its local name is titi.
a1897 F. B. Lloyd Sketches Country Life (1898) xliv. 267 He had jest simply been roamin round and round,..in that dismatic swamp—plungin and tearin through canebrakes and tighteye thickets.
1901 Torreya 1 116 Cyrilla raccmiflora L. Titi... Cliftonia monophylla (Lam.) Britton. Titi... In southeast Georgia, where these two species occur together, no distinction is made between them by the natives.
1929 National Forest Reservation Commission No. 44. 23 The area of titi swamp is not extensive.
1984 Florida Entomol. 67 393 Laboratory experiments evaluated leaf preference, using the stonefly..and differentially incubated red titi leaves.
2010 J. W. Moore Residual Effects of Unintended Consequences xi. 127 My father always drove for us and dropped us off at the edge of a swamp or titi thicket.
2. The sourwood or sorrel tree, Oxydendrum arboreum (family Ericaceae), a deciduous tree of the eastern United States. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > sorrel-tree
sorrel-tree1687
sour tree1717
sour wood1856
titi1860
1860 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Sept. 493/2 They gathered great handfuls [of violets] and bound them with white star-like flowers, and the pink bells of the tight-eye.
1898 G. B. Sudworth Check List Forest Trees U.S. (U.S. Dept. Agric.: Division of Forestry Bull. No. 17) 102 Oxydendrum arboreum... Names in use.—Sourwood..; Sorrel-tree..; Sour Gum Bush..; Sour Gum..; Arrow-wood..; Titi (S[outh] C[arolina]); Lily of the Valley-tree.
1943 M. L. Fernald & A. C. Kinsey Edible Wild Plants Eastern N. Amer. iii. 308 Sorrel-tree, Sour-wood or Titi, Oxydendrum arboreum.
2015 T. L. Ogren Allergy-fighting Garden ix. 161 Oxydendrum... Lily-of-the-valley tree, sorrel tree, sourwood, titi. A slow-growing, tall (to 80 feet) native deciduous tree of the eastern United States.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

titin.3

Brit. /ˈtiːtiː/, U.S. /ˈtiˌti/, New Zealand English /ˈtiːtiː/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1800s tee-tee, 1800s ti-ti, 1800s–1900s teetee, 1800s– titi.
Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori tītī.
Etymology: < Maori tītī.
New Zealand.
Any of various shearwaters and petrels eaten as food; esp. the sooty shearwater or mutton-bird, Ardenna grisea, and the diving petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Pelecanoididae
titi1851
the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Callicebus (titi)
mico1604
sagoin1607
cagui1753
titi1756
Moloch1827
titi1851
1851 E. Shortland Southern Districts N.Z. xii. 224 A kelp bag..is easily found of the size required... In this the young ‘titi’ are packed, after being cooked, and the oil which has escaped in the cooking is poured on them.
1891 Australasian 14 Nov. 963/1 The petrels—there are nine kinds,..the short-billed ti-ti, the long-billed ti-ti [etc.].
1937 N.Z. Railways Mag. Mar. 23 The taking of Titi seems to the white man like one big picnic for the Maoris.
2014 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 21 Feb. 4 Thousands of titi (muttonbirds) chased fish along the Oreti Beach shoreline yesterday.
2014 @Tarryntino 21 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Titi for dinner! What a delicious treat :-) #Maoridelicacy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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