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tit (tit)
noun
a titmouse or other small bird
Etymology: tit(mouse)
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tit (tit)
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tit (tit)
noun
Now Rare a small, worn-out, or inferior horse
Etymology: ME tit- in titmose, titmouse, titling: prob. child's term for “little,” seen also in ON tītlingr, little bird, Norw titta, little girl
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Usage Examples
Converse of object
- tail: A large group of long tailed tits were searching for insects in a large alder tree to my left.
- go: Why have things gone tits up for East Midlands clubs in recent years?
- get: ET global have got tits up dot com... .
- include: Look out for birds including blue tits or great tits taking insects into their nests to feed their young.
- see: We have also seen blue tits doing the same thing.
Preposition: for
- tat: It is the ' rough justice ' of revenge: tit for tat.
Adjective modifier
- long-tailed: On the 11th December there were flocks of Long-tailed tits searching the large lime trees for insects to feed on.
- bearded: We have a 7 year old bearded tit still going strong.
- crested: I only saw the crested tits once - during an early morning walk about.
- blue: For example the blue tit, which perhaps should be renamed the UV tit!
- great: The song is like a simpler, weaker great tit 's song.
- big: They focussed all of their budget on making the chick have bigger tits.
Modifies a noun
- nest: Bearded tits nest in reedbeds; nowhere else will do.
- bit: Might be odd tit bits there for you to use.
- population: Change in mean fledging mass over time in the great tit population from 1965 to 2000.
- box: In early May we had 11 eggs in our blue tit box.
- family: The tit family, chaffinch, blackbird, and thrush are other common birds.
Noun used with modifier
Browse dictionary entries near tit
- Tisza
- tissue plasminogen activator
- tissue paper
- tissue culture
- tissue
- Tisiphone
- Tishri
- Tishah b'Ab
- tisane
- 'tis
- tit for tat
- tit-tat-toe
- Titan
- titanate
- Titaness
- Titania
- titanic
- titanic acid
- titaniferous
- Titanism
