tit.
A person's breast or nipple.
Meaning & usage
A person's breast or nipple.
An animal's teat or udder.
An idiot; a fool.
Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
A police officer; a "tithead".
Where this word comes from
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).
A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
Where this word comes from
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
To strike lightly, tap, pat.
To taunt, to reproach.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
Any of various other small passerine birds.
A small horse; a nag.
A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
A morsel; a bit.
Where this word comes from
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).
Try it on your idea.
tit has 3 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.