[1700–10; Tom (Thumb) + tit1]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, cirrus, emphatic, hump, sliding scale
Examples of 'tomtit' in a sentence
tomtit
The thin-shelled walnut likewise suffers greatly from the tomtit.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 2 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)