tit

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (slang) A person's breast or nipple.
2. (slang) An animal's teat or udder.
3. (slang) An idiot; a fool.
4. (slang) A police officer; a "tithead".

Verb

1. (obsolete) To strike lightly, tap, pat.
2. (obsolete) To taunt, to reproach.

Sinonieme

boob

titmouse

breast

nipple

teat

titty

boobie

chickadee

pap

mamilla

jug

knocker

mammilla

stroke

strike

thrust

tomtit

udder

whop

bosom

mammary gland

papilla

percussion

rap

slam

a woman’s breast

female breast

knock

beating

bird

🐦

blow

box

📦

bruise

bump

bust

chatter

chop

clip

coup

dug

flick

great tit

hit

hooter

battery

🔋

mamma

mammary

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/tɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

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).