tit
/tɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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.""
- "Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tit, *titt, *tittaz, -
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.