tit
Multiple Entries:tit Tit.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tit1
▶noun a titmouse (songbird).
– origin C16: prob. of Scand. origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tit2
▶noun
- 1 vulgar slang a woman's breast.
- 2 Brit. informal a foolish or ineffectual person.
– phrases
get on someone's tits Brit. vulgar slang irritate someone intensely.
get on someone's tits Brit. vulgar slang irritate someone intensely.
– origin OE tit ‘teat, nipple’, of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tit3
▶noun (in phr. tit for tat) the infliction of an injury or insult in retaliation for one received.
– origin C16: var. of obs. tip for tap.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Tit.
▶abbreviation Titus (in biblical references).
'tit' also found in these Oxford entries:
bearded tit
- blue tit
- chickadee
- coal tit
- cole tit
- great tit
- long-tailed tit
- lucre
- parrotbill
- penduline tit
- reedling
- tat
- taunt
- Tit.
- titfer
- titmouse
- titty
- tomtit

