tit
Betekenis (English)
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- (slang) A person's breast or nipple.
- (slang) An animal's teat or udder.
- (slang) An idiot; a fool.
- (slang) A police officer; a "tithead".
Synonyms
a woman’s breast
female breast
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/tɪt/
Etymology (English)
In summary
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).
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