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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
2. A woman; -- used in contempt. --Burton.
3. A morsel; a bit. --Halliwell.
4. [OE.; cf. Icel. titter a tit or small bird. The word probably meant originally, something small, and is perhaps the same as teat. Cf. {Titmouse}, {Tittle}.] (Zool.) (a) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families {Paridae} and {Leiotrichidae}; a titmouse. (b) The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
{Ground tit}. (Zool.) See {Wren tit}, under {Wren}.
{Hill tit} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to {Siva}, {Milna}, and allied genera.
{Tit babbler} (Zool.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus {Trichastoma}.
{Tit for tat}. [Probably for tip for tap. See {Tip} a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation.
{Tit thrush} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic and East Indian birds belonging to {Suthora} and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Titmouse \Tit"mouse'\, noun; pl. {Titmice}. [OE. titemose, titmase; tit small, or a small bird + AS. m[=a]se a kind of small bird; akin to D. mees a titmouse, G. meise, OHG. meisa, Icel. meisingr. The English form has been influenced by the unrelated word mouse. Cf. {Tit} a small bird.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to {Parus} and allied genera; -- called also {tit}, and {tomtit}.
Note: The blue titmouse ({Parus coeruleus}), the marsh titmouse ({Parus palustris}), the crested titmouse ({Parus cristatus}), the great titmouse ({Parus major}), and the long tailed titmouse ({Aegithalos caudatus}), are the best-known European species. See {Chickadee}.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman [syn: {breast}, {bosom}, {knocker}, {boob}, {tit}, {titty}]
2: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: {nipple}, {mammilla}, {mamilla}, {pap}, {teat}, {tit}]
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