tit – English noun declension

English noun forms of tit

Noun: tit
Singulartit
Pluraltits

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 13:]
  • 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." [2006, Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision:]
  • Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits. [1987, “A Conflict of Interest”, in Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, directors, Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), BBC2:]
  • 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. [1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19:]
  • 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. [2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Errol (Andy Beckwith):]
  • “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.” [2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 234:]
  • 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. [2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 00:52:46-00:52:55]
  • “I asked Nandor and Colin Robinson to come with me on the first day because I didn't want the class to look too empty. But now I cannot get those two tits to leave.” [2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (5:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):]

Etymology

1. 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.
2. Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse). See: Middle English Nouns 'tit', Dutch Nouns 'tiet', Dutch Nouns 'tet', German Nouns 'Zitze'.

Verbs referencing "tit"

Galician Nouns teta, German Nouns Zitze, Dutch Nouns tiet, Swedish Nouns tutte, French Nouns tette, German Nouns Titte, Galician Nouns teto, Irish Nouns dide.