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Tit is short for a small bird called a titmouse, or is a vulgar slang term for a female's breast.

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An example of a tit is a titmouse, a small bird found in New England.

See tit in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a titmouse or other small bird

Origin: tit(mouse)

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nipple (sense )
a breast: in this sense now vulgar

Origin: ME titte < OE tit, teat

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Now Rare a small, worn-out, or inferior horse

Origin: 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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noun

A titmouse.
Any of various small, similar or related birds.

adjective
New England & Upstate New York

Small; undersized.

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Origin: Short for titmouse

Origin: . Adj., Middle English tit-

Origin: , as in titmose, titmouse; see titmouse

Regional Note: Tit is an old Germanic word for “small” and is used in various northern European languages to refer to small objects, animals, or people, especially girls—for example, titta is a Norwegian dialect word for “little girl.” The word is most common in American English in combinations that denote various small birds, such as the titmouse or tomtit. A titman in the 19th century could mean a small or stunted person, as Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation “a race of tit-men.” Tit and titman are still used in New England, mostly by farmers to refer to the runt of a litter of pigs.

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