• TISE
vb. to entice; to tempt, to allure, to attract; to coax, to wheedle …1860 Sc.
• TISH
n. 1979 US drug culture sl. – phencyclidine (PCP)
• TISICAL
adj. asthmatic …1888 Eng. dial.
• TISICKNESS
n. asthmatic quality …1533 obs.
• TISS
vb. ? to weave: ? to arrange with light touches …1585 obs. rare
• TISSEY
n. a sixpenny piece …1804 Brit. sl.
• TISSICK
n. a cold; an infection of the throat or lungs …1954 Amer. dial.
• TISSICKING
adj. asthmatic, wheezy …1890 Eng. dial.
• TISTICA
n. tuberculosis …1967 Amer. dial.
• TISTITOSTIE
n. a swaggering or blustering fellow …1598 obs.
• TISTI-TOSTIE-FELLOW
n. a swaggerer …1598 obs.
• TISTY-TOSTY
adj. 1. 1598 – swaggering → obs.
adj. 2. 1888 – plump and comely; round like a ball → Eng. dial.
adj. 3. 1888 – pleasant → Eng. dial.
int. 1568 – an exclamation of triumph or exultation → obs.
n. 1. 1598 – a swaggering or blustering fellow → obs.
n. 2. 1825 – a bunch of flowers, a nosegay → obs.
• TISWAS
n. 1960 – a state of agitation or restlessness → sl.
• TIT
adj. 1400 – dear, beloved; fond → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adv. 1225 – quickly, soon → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 1. 1340 – a sharp and sudden pull; a tug, a jerk, a twitch → chiefly Sc.
n. 2. 1548 – a horse small of kind, or not full grown; later applied in depreciation to any horse; a nag
n. 3. 1599 – a girl or young woman
n. 4. 1599 – a woman of loose character; a licentious woman; a hussy, a minx
n. 5. 1599 – a lad or young man → obs.
n. 6. 1808 – a light stroke or tap; a slap → Sc.
n. 7. 1828 – a call to a cat
n. 8. 1947 – a foolish person → sl.
vb. 1. 1300 – to pull forcibly, to tug; to snatch → chiefly Sc.
vb. 2. 1375 – to pull up, esp. in a halter; hence, to hang → obs.
vb. 3. 1425 – to lay hold of forcibly, to clutch, to seize → obs.
vb. 4. 1589 – to strike or tap lightly; to pat, to tip → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 5. 1622 – to twit, to upbraid; to scoff or jeer at → obs.
vb. 6. 1916 – to milk a cow → Amer. dial.
• TITA
n. 1. 1967 – a sister → Hawaii
n. 2. 1967 – an immoral woman → Hawaii
• TITAN
adj. 1697 – titanic, gigantic
n. 1. 1412 – the sun personified
n. 2. 1828 – something or someone of gigantic stature or strength, physical or intellectual; an excellent person
n. 3. 1876 – a machine of great size and power
• TITAN BEAM
n. 1649 – a sunbeam → obs.
• TIT AND ARSE • TIT AND ASS
adj. 1972 – denoting the crude display of female sexuality on stage, in films, newspapers, books, etc. → sl.
• TITANESQUE
adj. 1882 – colossal, gigantic
• TITANESS
n. 1596 – a female of great, strength, intellect, or importance
• TITANIAN
adj. 1. 1614 – resembling the sun
adj. 2. 1667 – large, huge, colossal, gigantic
• TITANIC
adj. 1. 1656 – pert. to the sun → obs.
adj. 2. 1709 – gigantic, colossal
• TITANICAL
adj. 1642 – gigantic, colossal → obs.
• TITANOLATER
n. 1846 – an admirer of titanic attributes
• TITANOLATRY
n. 1867 – worship or admiration of titanic attributes
• TITANOMACHY
n. 1887 – the warfare of the Titans
• TIT ART
n. 1970 – appealing photographs of young women → US newspaper office usage
• TITBAG
n. 1945 – a brassiere → sl.
• TIT-BITICAL
adj. 1890 – full of tit-bits or tidbits
• TIT-BITTY
adj. 1887 – full of tit-bits or tidbits
• TIT-BORE
n. 1600 – the childish game of ‘bo-peep’ → Sc. obs.
• TITCH
n. 1. 1867 – a kid → Ireland obs. (Bk.)
n. 2. .M19 – a flogging → sl.
n. 3. 1888 – a small person; a name for a small person → chiefly Brit.
n. 4. 1937 – a very little; a small amount → colloq.
n. 5. 1979 – phencyclidine (PCP) → US drug culture sl.
vb. .M19 – to flog → sl.
• TITCHY
adj. 1691 – tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered → Eng. dial.
• TITE
adj. 1400 – quick, swift → obs.
adv. 1225 – quickly, soon → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TITELY
adv. 1225 – quickly, speedily, smartly; soon → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TITERY
n. 1725 – gin → sl. obs.
• TITE-TITY
vb. 1. 1905 – to balance on the hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 2. 1905 – to play at seesaw → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• TITFA • TITFER • TITFOR
n. 1930 – a hat → Brit. rhyming sl. (Tit for Tat)
• TIT FOR TAT
adj. 1898 – of a competition or competitors: close, even, equal, neck and neck → Amer. dial.
• TIT-HAMMOCK
n. E20 – a brassiere → Brit. sl.
• TITHE
adj. 1250 – tenth
n. 1. ..900 – a granting; a concession, boon → obs.
n. 2. 1494 – a tenth part of anything; later, a very small part
vb. 1. ..893 – to grant, to concede, to bestow → obs.
vb. 2. ..897 – to grant or pay one tenth of one’s goods, earnings, etc., esp. to the support of the church; to pay tithes on one’s goods, lands, etc.
vb. 3. 1000 – to take every tenth thing or person from the whole number; to take one tenth of the whole; to divide into tenths → obs.
• TITHELING
n. 1320 – tenth part, tithe → obs.
• TITHE-MAN
n. 1. 1450 – anciently, the chief man of a tithing; a headborough → obs.
n. 2. 1680 – one who pays tithes → obs.
n. 3. 1747 – a collector of tithes
• TITHER
n. 1. 1386 – one who pays tithes
n. 2. 1591 – an exactor or receiver of tithes; also a supporter of the system of ecclesiastical tithes
• TITHING
n. 1. ..925 – one tenth given to the church; tithe
n. 2. 1275 – thing granted, reward → obs.
n. 3. 1382 – a tenth part of anything obs.
n. 4. 1586 – the killing of every tenth; decimation; sometimes, the killing of all but the tenth → obs.
• TITHINGMAN
n. 1. ..946 – anciently, the chief man of a tithing; a headborough; in later use, a parish peace-officer, or petty constable
n. 2. 1000 – a chief or ruler of ten → obs.
n. 3. 1625 – a collector of tithes
• TITI
n. a dense thicket …1905 Amer. dial.
• TITIAN
adj. of hair colour: red …1904
• TITICULTURE
n. the appreciation of well-shaped human breasts; breast worship …20C sl.
• TITILLATE
vb. 1. to excite or stimulate as by tickling; esp. to excite agreeably, to gratify the sense of taste, smell, or touch, the imagination …1620
vb. 2. to touch lightly; to irritate slightly …1837
• TITILLATING
adj. 1. pleasantly exciting, exhilarating, stimulating …1712-14
adj. 2. itching, tingling; craving, hankering …1858
• TITILLATION
n. 1. pleasing excitement, gratification …c1425
n. 2. a sensation of being tickled; a tingling, an itching …1621
n. 3. the act of tickling or touching lightly so as to tickle …1623
• TITILLATIVE
adj. tending to tickle, having the power of tickling …1736 nonce word
• TITILLATORY
adj. pleasurably exciting …1762
• TITIVATE
vb. to make small alterations to one’s toilet, etc. so as to add to one’s attractions; to make smart or spruce; to ‘touch up’ in the way of adornment, to put the finishing touches to …1805
• TITIVIL
n. 1. a term of reproach; a bad or vile character; a scoundrel, villain; a worthless knave …c1420 obs.
n. 2. a name for a demon or devil in the mystery plays …c1450 obs.
n. 3. a mischievous talebearer; a tattling telltale …1523 obs.
• TITIVILLER
n. 1. a bad or vile character, a scoundrel, a rogue, a rascal, a knave, a villain …1500 obs. rare
n. 2. a tattling telltale, a mischievous talebearer, one who spreads scandal …1581 obs. rare
• TITLARK
n. a spectator; a witness …1799 sl.
• TITLE
n. 1. an inscription placed on or over an object, giving its name or describing it; a legend; sometimes, a placard hung up in a theatre giving the names of the piece, etc. …c950 obs.
n. 2. a document; a writing, a letter …c1330 obs.
n. 3. an inscribed pillar, column, tombstone, or the like …1388 obs. rare
n. 4. a part or division of a book, or of a subject …a1400 obs.
vb. 1. to entitle …a1300 obs.
vb. 2. to set down in writing; to inscribe, to record, to chronicle …1340 obs.
• TITLEY
n. drink; generally applied to intoxicating beverages …M19 Brit. sl.
• TITLING
n. the smallest pig in a litter …1959 Amer. dial.
• TITLY
adv. quickly, speedily, smartly; soon …a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TIT-MAN
n. 1. the smallest pig, etc. of a litter…1849 Amer. dial.
n. 2. (as ‘titman’) a person, usually male, that is literally or figuratively stunted; a dwarf; the smallest or youngest or least significant in a family or other group …1818 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a male more interested in a woman’s breasts than her legs, etc. …c1910 sl.
• TITMOUSE
n. 1. a small, petty, or insignificant person or thing …1596
n. 2. (usually as ‘tit-mouse’) the female genitals …M17 Brit. sl.
• TIT ONE IN THE TEETH
vb. to cast in one’s teeth, to upbraid one with …1622 obs.
• TITRIVATE
vb. 1. to titivate; to adjust the personal appearance of; to make oneself attractive; to primp, to go about ostentatiously …1854 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to fix up, to adjust, to manipulate …1903 Amer. dial.
• TITRIVATED OUT
adj. dressed up …1917 Amer. dial.
• TITS
int. 20C US sl. – an exclamation; Great!
adj. 1. 1960s US sl. – excellent; wonderful
adj. 2. 1960s US students’ sl. – easy; simple
n. 1928 sl. – breasts
• TITS AND ARSE; TITS AND ASS
adj. denoting the crude display of female sexuality on stage, in films, newspapers, books, etc. …1972 sl.
• TITS AND BUMS
adj. denoting the crude display of female sexuality on stage, in films, newspapers, books, etc. …1972 sl.
• TITS-AND-ZITS
phr. 1970s US sl. – dealing with teenage love and sex
• TITS FOR DAYS
adj. pert. to a woman with large or immensely large breasts …M20 US sl.
• TIT-SHOW
n. a vaudeville act in which uncovered female breasts are to be seen …c1930 colloq.
• TITS-MAN
n. a male more interested in a woman’s breasts than her legs, etc. …c1910 sl.
• TITTA
n. a sister; also, a term or term of address for a woman …1883 Amer. dial.
• TIT-TAT
n. an imitation of the sound of alternating taps or blows …a1700
• TITTER
adv. 1. more quickly; sooner, earlier …a1300 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
adv. 2. more readily, more willingly, sooner, rather …a1300 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
n. 1. a stifled laugh, a giggle …1728
n. 2. a young woman or girl …1812 sl.
n. 3. an animal’s teat …19C Brit. colloq.
n. 4. a sister; also, a term or term of address for a woman …1897 Amer. dial.
n. 5. a man who spends much time with girls or is highly attracted to them …E20 US sl.
n. 6. a seesaw …1966 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to move unsteadily, as if about to fall; to totter, to reel; to sway to and fro …c1374 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to laugh in a suppressed or covert way; to giggle …a1619
vb. 3. to seesaw …a1825 Eng. dial.
• TITTER-A-TAUTER
n. the pastime of seesaw; also, a seesaw …1887 Eng. dial.
• TITTERATION
n. tittering, giggling …1754
• TITTER-BOARD
n. a seesaw …1966 Amer. dial.
• TITTER-CUM-TOTTER
n. the pastime of seesaw; also, a seesaw …1887 Eng. dial.
• TITTERER
n. 1. a tattler, a telltale …1377 obs.
n. 2. one who laughs restrainedly; a giggler …1828
• TITTERING
adj. 1. tottering, swaying. moving unsteadily …1661
adj. 2. giggling, laughing with suppressed mirth …1748
n. 1. the act of tottering or swaying; unsteady movement …c1374
n. 2. hesitation, vacillation …c1374
• TITTERING BOARD
n. a seesaw …1943 Amer. dial.
• TITTER-TEETER
n. a seesaw …1965 Amer. dial.
• TITTER-TOTTER
adv. 1. in a tottering manner; unsteadily …1725
adv. 2. hesitatingly, waveringly …1725
n. 1. the pastime of seesaw; also, a seesaw …1530 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 2. one who totters, reels, or staggers …a1700 obs.
vb. to seesaw …a1825 Eng. dial.
• TITTERY
adj. foolish; silly; witless …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. gin …1725 sl. obs.
• TITTERY-TU
n. one of an association of well-to-do ‘roughs’ who infested London streets in the 17th century …1623 obs.
• TIT TICKLERS
n. metal studs covering the back of a young male motorcyclist’s riding jacket …c1965 motorcyclists’ sl.
• TITTIE
n. 1. a sister; a young woman or girl …1725 Sc.
n. 2. the breast, esp. the mother’s breast …1746
n. 3. breast milk …1827 Amer. dial.
• TITTIE AND BILLIE
n. sister and brother …18C Sc.
• TITTIVATE
vb. to make small alterations to one’s toilet, etc. so as to add to one’s attractions; to make smart or spruce; to ‘touch up’ in the way of adornment, to put the finishing touches to …1805
• TITTLE
n. 1. the smallest or a very small part of something; a minute amount …c1400
n. 2. the dot over the letter ‘i’; a punctuation mark; a diacritic point over a letter; any one of the Hebrew and Arabic vowel-points and accents; also, a pip on dice …1538
vb. 1. to tickle …a1300 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to speak in a whisper or in a low voice, to whisper; also, to tell or utter by way of tattle or gossip; to tell a person confidentially …1399 Eng. dial. & colloq.
vb. 3. to fondle or indulge to excess; to pet, to pamper; to tend carefully, to nurse, to cherish …1560 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to potter; to trifle; to fidget, to fuss …17C obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
• TITTLE-GOOSE
n. a foolish, tattling person; a telltale, a foolish blab …1807 Eng. dial.
• TITTLER
n. one who tattles; a whisperer, a telltale, a talebearer; a gossip …1399 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TITTLE-TATTLE
adj. addicted to tattling; gossiping …1719
n. 1. talk, chatter, prattle; esp. empty or trifling talk about trivial matters; petty gossip …a1529
n. 2. a habitual tattler; one given up to gossip; esp. a woman so addicted …1580 obs.
vb. to chatter, to prate; to talk idly; to gossip …1583
• TITTLE-TATTLER
n. one addicted to tattling; an idle talker, a gossip …1600
• TITTLING BOARD
n. a seesaw …1943 Amer. dial.
• TITTLY-BENDERS
n. an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1892 Amer. dial.
• TITTUP
n. 1. 1536 – the trigger of a crossbow → obs.
n. 2. 1703 – a horse’s canter; a hand-gallop → chiefly Eng. dial.
n. 3. 1762 – a pert, impudent or forward woman or girl; a hussy, a minx → Eng. dial.
n. 4. 1805 – a cantering horse → obs.
n. 5. ..L19 – the correct or fashionable thing → sl.
vb. 1. 1785 – to walk or go with an up-and-down movement; to walk in an affected manner; to mince or prance in one’s gait
vb. 2. 1844 – of a horse or other animal: to canter, to gallop easily
vb. 3. 1881 – of a boat: to toss with abrupt jerky movements
• TITTUPING
adj. 1. 1796 – rollicking, lively, merry
adj. 2. 1824 – unsteady, rickety
adj. 3. 1895 – bouncing, cantering, prancing
• TITTUPY
adj. 1. 1798 – apt to tip up; unsteady, shaky, rickety → colloq.
adj. 2. 1915 – jolly, lively
• TITTY
n. 1. ..18C – human breast milk → colloq.
n. 2. 1725 – a sister; a young woman or girl → Sc.
n. 3. 1746 – the breast, esp. the mother’s breast
n. 4. 1790 – a nosegay → Eng. dial.
n. 5. 1821 – a kitten, a cat
• TITTY BABY
n. 1. 1973 – a nursing infant → Amer. dial.
n. 2. 1996 – a whiner, a crybaby → Amer. dial.
• TITTY-BOTTLE
n. 19C – a baby-bottle; a nursing-bottle → Brit. colloq.
• TITTY CHILD
n. 1973 – a nursing infant → Amer. dial.
• TITTYNOPE
n. 19C – a small quantity of anything left over; it was especially applied to a small handful of corn left over in gleaning → Eng. dial.
• TITTY-OGGY
n. 19C – fellatio → Brit. sl.
• TITTYRY
n. 1623 – one of an association of well-to-do ‘roughs’ who infested London streets in the 17th century → obs.
• TITTY TODDY
adj. 1875 – vacillating, undecided; silly, fussy, crotchety → Eng. dial.
• TITTY-TOIT
vb. 19C – to tidy up → Eng. dial.
• TITTY-TOTTY
adj. 1893 – extremely tiny, very small → Eng. dial.
• TITTY-UP
n. 1901 – a pert, impudent or forward woman or girl; a hussy, a minx → Eng. dial.
• TITUBANCY
n. 1800 – tipsiness, partial drunkenness; unsteadiness →
• TITUBANT
adj. 1. 1817 – staggering, tottering, reeling, stumbling, unsteady
adj. 2. 1817 – stammering
adj. 3. 1817 – rollicking, tipsy
adj. 4. 1880 – uncertain, doubting, hesitating, wavering →
• TITUBANTLY
adv. 1861 – stammeringly
• TITUBATE
vb. 1. 1540 – to move unsteadily, to stagger, to stumble, to trip, to reel, to totter; to rock, roll
vb. 2. 1623 – to stumble over one’s words, to stammer, to stutter, to falter in speaking
• TITUBATING
adj. 1653 – moving unsteadily
• TITUBATION
n. 1. 1641 – a stammering, a stuttering → obs.
n. 2. 1710 – faltering, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment
n. 3. 1849 – the act of staggering, reeling, stumbling, or tottering; unsteadiness in gait or carriage
• TITULATE
vb. 1620 – to excite or stimulate as by tickling; esp. to excite agreeably, to gratify the sense of taste, smell, or touch, the imagination
• TIT UP
vb. 1. 1880 – to toss up coins in order to reach a decision → sl.
vb. 2. 1960 – to fondle a woman’s breasts → sl.
• TITWANK
n. 1. 1990 – an act of intercourse in which the man rubs his penis between the woman’s breasts → sl.
n. 2. 1990 – a term of abuse → sl.
• TIT WILLOW
n. 1870 – a pillow → rhyming sl.
• TITYRE-TU
n. 1623 – one of an association of well-to-do ‘roughs’ who infested London streets in the 17th century → obs.
• TIUS
n. L19 – a suit of clothes → back slang
• TIVES
n. 1970 – one’s relatives → US students’ sl.
• TIVVILL
n. Bk1896 sl. – a short crowbar, used by housebreakers
• TIVVY
n. 19C – the female genitals → Brit. sl.
• TIVY
vb. 1842 – to ride rapidly
• TIZ • TIZZ
n. 1954 – a state of agitation, restlessness, nervousness, confusion or dither for little reason → sl.
• TIZ UP
vb. 1930 – to dress up → Aust. sl.
• TIZ-WIZZ
n. 1935 – a state of agitation, restlessness, nervousness, confusion or dither for little reason; panic, a flap → sl., orig. US
• TIZZEY
n. 1804 – a sixpenny piece → Brit. sl.
• TIZZICK
n. 1835 – a consumption, a shortness of breath; asthma; tuberculosis → Amer. dial.
• TIZZICKY
adj. 1913 – asthmatic, wheezy → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
• TIZZIE LISH
n. 1995 – a woman who overdresses, or spends too much on clothes → Amer. dial.
• TIZZLE
vb. 1825 – to toss, to throw or buffet about; to stir up, to turn over hay → Sc.
• TIZZLE-TAZZLE
n. 1957 – a state of confusion, a tizzy → Amer. dial.
• TIZZ-WOZZ
n. 1960 – a state of agitation or restlessness → sl.
• TIZZY
adj. 1. 1930 – showily or flashily overdressed → Aust. sl.
adj. 2. 1930 – of a person: ostentatious, showy, vulgar → Aust. sl.
adj. 3. 1930 – of an object: flashy but cheaply manufactured → Aust. sl.
adj. 4. 1967 – feeling unwell → Amer. dial.
n. 1. 1804 – a sixpenny piece → Brit. sl.
n. 2. 1805 – a struggle, tussle, strenuous effort; a tiring or trying spell of work → Sc.
n. 3. 1935 – a state of agitation, restlessness, nervousness, confusion or dither for little reason; panic, a flap → sl., orig. US
vb. 1960 – to titivate, to dress up in one’s finery → Aust. sl.
• TIZZYRINCTUM
n. 1989 – spunk, confusion → Amer. dial.
• TIZZY UP
vb. 1960 – to titivate, to dress up in one’s finery → Aust. sl.
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