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▪ I. titty, n.1 Sc. colloq.|ˈtɪtɪ|
Also tittie.
[perh. infantile pronunciation of sissie, sister; ? associated with tit n.3]
A sister; a young woman or girl. Cf. kitty1.
tittie and billie, sister and brother (cf. billy1 3); hence to be tittie-billie, to be closely associated as brother and sister, or as brothers or sisters.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, That clattern Madge, my titty. 1790Burns Tam Glen i, My heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie! Some counsel unto me come len'. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. v, ‘Has she not a sister?’ ‘In troth has she—puir Jeanie Deans..; she was here greeting a wee while syne about her tittie’. 1825Jamieson s.v., Tam's a great thief, but Will's tittie-billie wi' him. 1896J. Lumsden Poems 18 A band of billies And frisky titties.
▪ II. ˈtitty, n.2
[dial. or infantile var. of kitty2.]
A kitten, a cat; pussy.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr., etc. (1823) I. 165 Now she wails o'er Titty's bones With anguish deep. 1828Craven Gloss., Titty-pussy, a cat. c1880Northampt. Dial., Oh, mother, mother! titty is drinking the milk.
▪ III. ˈtitty, n.3
Also tetty, tittie.
1. Formerly, a dial. and nursery dim. of teat, the breast, esp. the mother's breast. Now colloq. or slang and also as dim. of tit n.6 (chiefly pl.): applied both to a nipple (sometimes of a boy) and to a woman's breast including the nipple; tough titty: see tough a. 6 d.
1746Exmoor Courtship 376 (E.D.S.) Es wont ha' ma Tetties a grabbled zo. 1825[see teat 1 α]. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex., Titty, mamma, nipple. [See Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v.] 1922Joyce Ulysses 738 Yes I think he made them a bit firmer sucking them like that so long he made me thirsty titties he calls them. 1940C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter i. iii. 39 His little titties were like blue raisins on his chest. 1957J. Frame Owls do Cry vii. 33 She had pink bulges where Daphne had mere tittie dots. 1972Screw 12 June 10/2 Man, those firm nice buttocks and titties filled that bikini to overflowing. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline iv. 46 Man, that is cold. My titties feel like a pair of Pecos strawberries.
2. Comb., as titty-bag, a sweetened object given to a baby to suck; titty-bottle, a baby's feeding bottle with teat.
1923J. Manchon Le Slang 314 Titty-bag, un suçon. 1976A. Hill Summer's End x. 147 A titty-bag was a piece of rag with sugar poured inside, then the rag was tied up with string and the sugar-lump stuck into the blarting mouth.
1871B. Brierley Cotters of Mossburn iv. 46 He's suckin' th' sofy bowster i' th' bar an' doesno' know but it's a titty-bottle. 1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl xi. 280 ‘Eh, tha can ta'e th' titty-bottle wi' thee,’ said the labourer.
▪ IV. titty, a. dial. and colloq.|ˈtɪtɪ|
[f. tit n.3 + -y1.]
Diminutive, insignificant.
1884Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. XVI. 118 A titty piece of cake. 1943J. W. Day Farming Adventure iii. 41 War Agricultural Committee officials, whom he described as ‘titty little bits on motor-bikes—never got their feet wet yet’. 1967K. Giles Death & Mr. Prettyman viii. 156 One of those titty little bikes with a one-horse engine. 1969E. McGirr Entry of Death iii. 38 It was a sliver of card... ‘This titty little bit of card could be anythink.’
Hence in reduplicated form titty-totty a. (n.) (dial).
1893H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk 56 Titty totty, extremely tiny. 1943J. W. Day Farming Adventure v. 62 He hed a little owd titty-totty boy from Tollesbury as a hand—a furriner! 1970Morning Star 28 Mar. 2/8 It is a titty-totty of a tree, a crab apple, a tree nonetheless. |