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单词 tittest
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tittestadv.

Forms: Middle English titest, Middle English titeste, Middle English tittes, Middle English tittist, Middle English tityst, Middle English tytes, Middle English (1800s English regional (northern)) tittest; Scottish pre-1700 tittest, pre-1700 tytest.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: tite adv., -est suffix.
Etymology: < tite adv. + -est suffix Compare titter adv.With the variant forms compare discussion at titter adv.
Obsolete (Scottish and English regional (northern) after Middle English).
Most quickly, soonest. Also: most readily, most willingly. Cf. tite adv. titter adv.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2176 His trauayle schold nouȝt tyne þat tittest hem founde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22129 (MED) Lauerdinges Turn þai sal til him titest [Gött. tittest, Coll. Phys. titeste].
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 62 (MED) I will schew how men may passe tittest, and in schortest tyme make þaire pilgrimage to Ierusalem.
a1500 MS Rawl. Q. B. 4 f. 1, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Tite Throu quham he may men tytest bring To fleschly lust.
c1550 Clariodus (1830) iv. l. 2219 Into this warld of everie leving man, Whom wald ȝe tytest hade me to his wyfe?
c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 16 That witch, that warlok, that vnworthie wic[ht] Turnis ay the best men tittest on thair baki[s].
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tittest, soonest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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