tit
nomnomverbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- //tɪt//
A person's breast or nipple.
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argotA person's breast or nipple.
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.
Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
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argotAn animal's teat or udder.
A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.
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argotAn idiot; a fool.
Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.
“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.”
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.
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argotA police officer; a "tithead".
Étymologie
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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archaïqueA light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
Étymologie
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
verbe
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obsolèteTo strike lightly, tap, pat.
Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
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obsolèteTo taunt, to reproach.
they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.
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argotA chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
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argotAny of various other small passerine birds.
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archaïqueA small horse; a nag.
[…] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.
Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad looking tit,” said St. Leger, as they went along.
[…] the benighted stranger […] might have easily […] mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard.
Gossiping, and smoothing the horse's mane down with his hand, "A nice little tit," said the man.
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archaïqueA young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
"What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"
But I don't mind; she's a pretty little tit, and Dick has taught her to call me uncle.
What, I suppose, Mr. Loader, you will be for your old friend the black ey'd girl, from Rosemary Lane. Ha ha! Well, 'tis a merry little tit. A thousand pities she's such a reprobate!
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argotA morsel; a bit.
Now if you can shew so neat a foot, ( shewing her shoe ) —Parlez moi de ça : —I suppose I was not noble enough for this squire; he must have a bit a blood, a tit of quality — but I shall be a countess soon, and a mighty good sort of countess I shall make.
Being drunk , he remembers not a tit of life before the drink came well home. It is not that he sees the past mistily; he does not see at all. He lives then only in as much of the present as the word of his master for the time being[…]
Would we understand woman if we took her whole instead of tit by tit?
The one farthest from the river was the largest and tallest; they decreased in size toward the river, until the fourth was little more than a tit of rock jutting up out of the prairie.
Étymologie
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).
Formes
- pluriel
- tits
- passé
- titted
- participe passé
- titted
- participe présent
- titting
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- tits