titとは

語源 1

From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from 古期英語 tit, titt, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), from Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“father; parent; nipple”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse). Probably related to an original meaning “to suck”. Compare Albanian thith (“to suck, breast, tit”) and teat.

別の表記

• tet

名詞

tit (複数形 tits)

1. A mammary gland, teat.
2. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
   • 2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press 2012, p. 13:

     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.

3. (Britain, pejorative, slang) An idiot; a fool.

   Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!

   • 2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed,^[1] iUniverse, ISBN 0-595-26199-X, page 234,

     “What did you say to the cops?” / “I told them everything about the smuggling ring.” / “Why the fuck did you do that?” / “They were nice to me.” / “They’re always nice to people they want to get information from, you dumb tit.”

   • 2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 00:52:46-00:52:55:

     John Watson (to Sherlock Holmes): It's Lestrade. Says they're all coming over here right now. Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit. Which is a lot of people.
     

同意語

• (breast): See also Wikisaurus:breast.
• (fool, idiot): See also Wikisaurus:idiot.

派生語

• cold as a witch's tit
• get on someone's tits
• off one's tits

関連する語

• titty, tittie

語源 2

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

名詞

tit (複数形 tits)

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

語源 3

A blue tit

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

名詞

tit (複数形 tits)

1. A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. Any of various other small passerine birds.
3. (archaic) A small horse; a nag.
   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 28)

     he was resolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more sobriety.

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4. (archaic) A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.

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5. A morsel; a bit.

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派生語

アナグラム

• ITT, itt

固有名詞

Tit.

1. Abbreviation of Titus.

アナグラム

• itt , ITT