tit

noun
🔊/tɪt/
🔊/tɪt/
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  1. [usually plural]
    (also titty)
    (taboo, slang) a woman’s breast or nipple(女人的)奶子,奶头,乳头Topics Bodyc2
  2. (British English, slang) a stupid person蠢货;笨蛋;窝囊废
  3. a small European bird. There are several types of tit山雀.
    • a great tit大山雀
    see also blue titTopics Birdsc2
  4. Word Originsense 3 mid 16th cent.: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Icelandic titlingur ‘sparrow’. Earlier senses were ‘small horse’ and ‘girl’; the current sense dates from the early 18th cent.senses 1 to 2 Old English tit ‘teat, nipple’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tit and German Zitze. The vulgar slang use was originally US and dates from the early 20th cent.