tit
noun /tɪt/
/tɪt/
- [usually plural] (also titty)(taboo, slang) a woman’s breast or nippleTopics Bodyc2
- (British English, slang) a stupid person
- a small European bird. There are several types of tit.
- a great tit
Word Originsense 3 mid 16th cent.: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Icelandic titlingur ‘sparrow’. Earlier senses were ‘small horse’ and ‘girl’; the current sense dates from the early 18th cent.senses 1 to 2 Old English tit ‘teat, nipple’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tit and German Zitze. The vulgar slang use was originally US and dates from the early 20th cent.