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tit

/tɪt/

tit noun: a person's breast or nipple.

Noun (1)

tit (plural tits)

  1. (in plural, slang, vulgar) A person's breast or nipple.
    • I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 13
    • Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."2006, Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision
  2. (slang, vulgar) An animal's teat or udder.
    • A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19
  3. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar) An idiot; a fool.
    • Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
    • I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Errol (Andy Beckwith)
  4. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar) A police officer; a "tithead".

Noun (2)

tit (plural tits)

  1. (archaic, slang, vulgar) A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).

Verb

tit (third-person singular simple present tits, present participle titting, simple past and past participle titted)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, slang, transitive, vulgar) To strike lightly, tap, pat.
    • Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?1897 [1607], John Webster, “Northward Hoe”, in The Dramatic Works of John Webster, page 203
  2. (obsolete, slang, transitive, vulgar) To taunt, to reproach.
    • they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.1623, James Mabbe, The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán

Noun (3)

tit (plural tits)

  1. (slang, vulgar) A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
  2. (slang, vulgar) Any of various other small passerine birds.
  3. (archaic, slang, vulgar) A small horse; a nag.
    • […] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC...
    • Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad looking tit,” said St. Leger, as they went along.1854, Charles James Collins, The life and adventures of Dick Diminy, page 156
  4. (archaic, slang, vulgar) A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
    • "What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"1843, Charles James C. Davidson, Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India
    • But I don't mind; she's a pretty little tit, and Dick has taught her to call me uncle.1887, George Manville Fenn, The Master of the Ceremonies, page 44
  5. (slang, vulgar) A morsel; a bit.
    • Now if you can shew so neat a foot, ( shewing her shoe ) —Parlez moi de ça : —I suppose I was not noble enough for this squire; he must have a bit a blood, a tit of quality — but I shall be a countess soon, and a mighty good sort of countess I shall make.1813, James Lawrence, The Englishman at Verdun; Or the Prisoner of Peace, page 44
    • Being drunk , he remembers not a tit of life before the drink came well home. It is not that he sees the past mistily; he does not see at all. He lives then only in as much of the present as the word of his master for the time being[…]1951, Thomas MacDermot, Orange Valley and Other Poems, page 66

tit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

tit in Hindi

(slang, vulgar) a woman's breast
चूची cūcī
a mammary gland, teat
स्तन stan

tit in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

tit in Marathi

a mammary gland, teat
स्तन stan

tit in Urdu

چوچی, حلمہ, سر پستان, ٹٹو
More languagesFewer languages
tit in Bengali
স্তন ston
tit in Telugu
టిట్
tit in Malayalam
മുല mula, സ്തനം stanaṁ
tit in Kannada
ಟಿ. ಐ. ಟಿ
tit in Punjabi
ਟੀ. ਆਈ. ਟੀ
tit in Gujarati
ટી. આઈ. ટી, ટી. આઇ. ટી, ટિટ
tit in Odia
ଟି. ଆଇ. ଟି
tit in Nepali
टिट, टु टिट
tit in Arabic
بِزّ bizz, بُزّ buzz, حَلَمَة ḥalama, بزَة
tit in Malay
tetek, kopek, puting
tit in Indonesian
toket, tetek, susu
tit in Persian
ممه mame

Examples of tit in a sentence

  • Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.1987, “A Conflict of Interest”, in Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, directors, Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bernard...
  • Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit.2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 00:52:46-00:52:55
  • But now I cannot get those two tits to leave.”2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (5:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7...
  • Gossiping, and smoothing the horse's mane down with his hand, "A nice little tit," said the man.1862, Robert Kemp Philp, The Family friend, page 362:

Synonyms of tit

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Forms of tit

Noun
pluraltits
alternative formtet
Verb
third-person singular presenttits
present participletitting
past participletitted
pasttitted

Origin of tit

From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin. Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).

Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.

Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).

Words formed from tit

Phrases with tit

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Words that rhyme with tit

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Questions about tit

What does tit mean?
Tit means a person's breast or nipple.
What is tit in Hindi?
Tit in Hindi is चूची (cūcī), स्तन (stan). See Tit meaning in Hindi.
How do you use tit in a sentence?
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
What part of speech is tit?
Tit can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tit?
Tit is pronounced /tɪt/.
What is the plural of tit?
The plural of tit is tits.

Words near tit in the dictionary

  1. tiswin
  2. Tisza
  3. Tiszabecs
  4. Tiszatenyő
  5. Tisău
  6. tit
  7. tit about
  8. tit for tat
  9. tit for tats
  10. tit fuck
  11. tit fucked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tit (page history and authors); tit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tit (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tit (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tit (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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