titty
See also: Titty
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From tit + -y. Sense of sister perhaps from baby talk form of sissy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɪti/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [ˈtʰɪɾi] (t-flapping)
Audio (Australia): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪti
Noun
titty (plural titties)
- (slang, vulgar) A breast.
- That hot bird will show you her titties for a fiver, mate!
- 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 704:
- […] yes I think he made them a bit firmer sucking them like that so long […] titties he calls them I had to laugh […]
- 1949 May, Albert Maltz, chapter VII, in The Journey of Simon McKeever[1], 1st edition (Fiction), Boston: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 101:
- There was a girl in the mattress factory with me during the war, girl about thirty. A big one, kind of a fat face, big behind to her, big titties, kind of a girl should be human and soft with a man.
- 2022 July 6, @MistaKwabs, Twitter[3] (post), archived from the original on 8 July 2022:
- damn girl is your titty a penis because i want to suck on it
- (slang, vulgar) A nipple.
- 2012 June 12, “Pennyroyal”, in 1999, performed by Joey Bada$$:
- And I tried to suck your titty hole for milk for my Cheerios
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A kitten.
- (Scotland, colloquial) A sister or girl.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Bislama: titi
Translations
breast
nipple
kitty — see kitty
Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “titty”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- Wright, Joseph (1905), The English Dialect Dictionary[4], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 170
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