单词 | titman |
释义 | titmann. U.S. regional (chiefly north-eastern). 1. The smallest pig in a litter. Also more fully titman pig. Now rare.Usage is recorded, esp. in New England and New York State, from the period 1965–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2012) V. 624/2. ΚΠ 1807 Weekly Inspector (N.Y.) 21 Feb. 298/2 An imperious sense of duty forces me to bring you across my knee, and ‘tickle the tails of a titman or two’. 1854 A. Child Tippletonia 66 As the ‘titman’ does when a larger pig drives him away from the dug he has..appropriated to his own especial use. 1913 W. T. Becker Larkin of Cotton Run iii. 40 Little, round-shouldered, thin-chested fellers they was, always makin' yeh think of a titman pig picked 'fore it was ripe. 1947 H. Croy Corn Country 281 Titman, the runt in a litter of pigs. 2. A person (usually a man) who is the smallest, youngest, weakest, etc., in a family or other group. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 1818 T. G. Fessenden Ladies Monitor 113 Vanity oft prematurely calls, Her titman-votaries to your baby-balls. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 117 We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper. 1900 H. Garland Eagle's Heart viii. 101 This yer little man must be the tit-man. 1989 H. F. Mosher Stranger in Kingdom (2002) iii. 72 According to Titman (so-called because he was the runt of the White litter), Gilson had flown into a towering rage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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