titmousen.

Brit.

/ˈtɪtmaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈtɪtˌmaʊs/

Inflections: Plural titmice Brit.

/ˈtɪtmʌɪs/, U.S.

/ˈtɪtˌmaɪs/.

Forms:

α. Middle English tetemose, Middle English tetenose (transmission error), Middle English tetmose, Middle English titemose, Middle English titmoyse, Middle English titomoze, Middle English tytmase, Middle English–1500s titmose, Middle English–1500s tytemose, Middle English–1500s tytmose, 1500s tytmus, 1500s tytmusse; English regional (northern) 2000s– titmoos.

β. 1500s tytmous, 1500s tytmouse, 1500s tyttimouse, 1500s–1600s titimouse, 1500s–1600s titmise (plural), 1500s–1600s tittimous, 1500s– titmouse, 1600s titmous, 1600s tittemouse, 1600s tyttimous, 1600s– tittimouse, 1600s– tittymouse.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: mose n.

Etymology: < a first element ultimately of expressive or imitative origin (compare discussion at tit n.⁴) + mose n. In β. forms with folk-etymological remodelling of the second element after mouse n. (probably reinforced by the small size and quick mouselike movements of the bird), whence also the plural form titmice . Compare later tit n.⁴ 3, which is now the more usual word in British English.Forms with apparent medial vowel are attested from an early date, although in some cases the e may be purely graphic. Although N.E.D. (1912) suggested that the type tittymouse was ‘apparently a childish or rustic adaptation’, the association of such forms with -y suffix⁶ is probably secondary. With such forms with a medial vowel perhaps compare the words denoting birds in various Scandinavian languages cited at tit n.⁴ (although these are only attested considerably later than in English, and no formal parallel of the English compound exists in any other Germanic language).

a. Any of various small songbirds of the family Paridae that typically have a dark cap and search acrobatically for insects among foliage and branches; a tit (tit n.⁴ 3a). Frequently with distinguishing word.In Britain the name tit has largely superseded titmouse, though the latter is still used for American species, esp. of the genus Baeolophus. In North America, the name chickadee is also used for some of these birds.blue titmouse, coal titmouse, great titmouse, marsh titmouse, Tom titmouse, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit)

moseeOE

titmousea1325

archangelc1400

hekemose14..

titlingc1550

musken1585

nonett1601

chit1610

tit1706

α.

a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) l. 759 Musenge [glossed] titomoze.

a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 640/28 Nomina auium..Hic frondator, tytmase.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 494 Tytemose, bryd, frondator.

c1450 (?a1370) Wynnere & Wastoure (1990) 352 (MED) He will hafe..Teeles and titmoyses, to take what hym lykes.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 762/32 Hec agredula, a tetmose.

1532 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 412 The sely wrenne, the tytemose also..haue free election To flyen..Where as hem lyst.

?1562 Thersytes sig. D.ii^v The tothe of the tytmus.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. f. 44^v The Nightingale is souereigne of song, Before him sits the Titmose silent bee.

β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/2 Tytmouse a byrde, musangere.1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. G5^v Primum parum, Angli uocant the great titmouse or the great oxei.1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K^v Sometimes I wepe To see Tom Tyttimouse, so much set by.1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 61 Finch, Linot, Tit-mouse, Wag-Tail (Cock and Hen).1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 105 Titmise are of divers shapes with us in England.1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 90 Parus Cristatus, the Crested, or Juniper Titmouse.1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 87 The black-headed Titmouse: Parus ater.1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. i. 5 I made..Experiments in compressed Air,..one with the great Titmouse, the other with a Sparrow.1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. p. xxvi Land-Birds which breed and abide in Carolina in the Summer, and retire in Winter:..The yellow Titmouse. The purple Martin. The humming Bird.1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. xxix. 431 The beetle..lies sprawling upon his back; until the little tit-mouse comes, pecks a hole in his side.1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 107 The blue, marsh, and great titmice will, in very severe weather, carry away barley and oat straws from the sides of ricks.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pick-cheese, the tit-mouse.1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 80 The Titmice compose a natural and pretty well defined group.1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ii. 25 When it comes to acrobatic performances in the trees, neither the chickadee nor the titmouse can rival their relatives, the little bluish gray nuthatches.1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 244/1 I discovered a rare bird, then almost unknown,..at Beckenham—a willow titmouse.1998 Nature 17 Sept. 215/1 Food-storing birds such as parids (titmice and chickadees) and corvids (jays, nutcrackers and magpies) readily do this in the laboratory.2013 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard (Nexis) 27 June b9/3 I described the size and location of the nest and Erickson said it could have been a tufted titmouse or a chipping squirrel.

b. With distinguishing word. Any of various small songbirds that resemble the true tits in appearance or habits; = tit n.⁴ 3b. Now rare.Most of these birds were traditionally placed with the true tits in the family Paridae but are now assigned to other families.bearded titmouse, bush titmouse, long-tailed titmouse, penduline titmouse, etc.: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mesange à la longue queuë, the long-tayled Titmouse.

1734 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 53 (heading) The Long Tail Titmouse. Parus caudatus.

1750 J. T. Klein Historiae avium prodromus 86 The Beard-manica, or bearded Titmouse.

1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Misc. (1860) I. 146 That flock of long-tailed titmice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones.

1875 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. III. 771/1 The wonderful structures which..the Bottle-Titmouse, or the Fantail-Warbler build for their young.

1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 213 That diminutive little bird, the least bush titmouse (Psaltriparus minimus).

1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 217 Another minute species of the titmouse family, the verdin or yellow-headed titmouse.

1960 New Eng. Q. 33 105 There were numerous pictures of unusual animals and birds, such as the Barbary ape and Penduline Titmouse.

1965 Behaviour 24 170 Koenig (1951–2) has observed similar behaviour in the Bearded Titmouse, Panurus biarmicus.

2. A small or insignificant person or thing (sometimes as a term of endearment). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance

nekardc1450

man of clouts, king of clouts1467

dandiprat1556

Tom Thumb1579

minim1590

pygmy?1592

titmouse1596

gnatling1614

rye straw1615

nazzard1619

whisk1629

whifling1640

snifty1660

whippersnapper1674

nick-ninny1699

little me1711

squita1825

lightweight1831

lay figure1835

whiffet1839

pinkeen1850

huckleberry1868

bush leaguer1906

knibloch1915

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing

minutea1450

minim1590

mite1594

titmouse1596

moteling1605

atom1633

thingling1652

long-little1653

parvitude1659

bodikin1668

eschantillon1720

niff-naff1808

smolt1808

runt1819

titty-tottya1825

featherweight1838

thinglet1839

shable1842

thumb1854

nubbin1857

speckle1882

teeny-weeny1894

hickey1909

tiddler1937

pinhead1951

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V3 ^v Noddy Nash,..his Apostrophe Sonnet, and tynie titmouse Lenuoy, like a welt at the edge of a garment.

a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women iii. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 33 You can keep a little Tit-mouse Page there.

1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius v. 56 Nurse. Wake her? Poor Titmouse.

a1750 L. Pilkington Mem. (1754) III. 13 Your little Tom Titmouse of a Husband.

1795 J. O'Keeffe Life's Vagaries v. i. 81 Ah, my little titmouse, suppose..you step and gather a few honeysuckles from the hedge yonder.

1836 C. Dickens Let. ?Feb. (1965) I. 124 Dearest Titmouse Ever yours most Affecy. Charles Dickens.

2005 H. Feldman Broken Rec. 65 My ambition is more important than your worthless life. I'm a successful doctor. You're a titmouse.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	titmouse
释义	titmousen. Brit. /ˈtɪtmaʊs/, U.S. /ˈtɪtˌmaʊs/ Inflections: Plural titmice Brit. /ˈtɪtmʌɪs/, U.S. /ˈtɪtˌmaɪs/. Forms: α. Middle English tetemose, Middle English tetenose (transmission error), Middle English tetmose, Middle English titemose, Middle English titmoyse, Middle English titomoze, Middle English tytmase, Middle English–1500s titmose, Middle English–1500s tytemose, Middle English–1500s tytmose, 1500s tytmus, 1500s tytmusse; English regional (northern) 2000s– titmoos. β. 1500s tytmous, 1500s tytmouse, 1500s tyttimouse, 1500s–1600s titimouse, 1500s–1600s titmise (plural), 1500s–1600s tittimous, 1500s– titmouse, 1600s titmous, 1600s tittemouse, 1600s tyttimous, 1600s– tittimouse, 1600s– tittymouse. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: mose n. Etymology: < a first element ultimately of expressive or imitative origin (compare discussion at tit n.⁴) + mose n. In β. forms with folk-etymological remodelling of the second element after mouse n. (probably reinforced by the small size and quick mouselike movements of the bird), whence also the plural form titmice . Compare later tit n.⁴ 3, which is now the more usual word in British English.Forms with apparent medial vowel are attested from an early date, although in some cases the e may be purely graphic. Although N.E.D. (1912) suggested that the type tittymouse was ‘apparently a childish or rustic adaptation’, the association of such forms with -y suffix⁶ is probably secondary. With such forms with a medial vowel perhaps compare the words denoting birds in various Scandinavian languages cited at tit n.⁴ (although these are only attested considerably later than in English, and no formal parallel of the English compound exists in any other Germanic language). 1. a. Any of various small songbirds of the family Paridae that typically have a dark cap and search acrobatically for insects among foliage and branches; a tit (tit n.⁴ 3a). Frequently with distinguishing word.In Britain the name tit has largely superseded titmouse, though the latter is still used for American species, esp. of the genus Baeolophus. In North America, the name chickadee is also used for some of these birds.blue titmouse, coal titmouse, great titmouse, marsh titmouse, Tom titmouse, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) moseeOE titmousea1325 archangelc1400 hekemose14.. titlingc1550 musken1585 nonett1601 chit1610 tit1706 α. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) l. 759 Musenge [glossed] titomoze. a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 640/28 Nomina auium..Hic frondator, tytmase. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 494 Tytemose, bryd, frondator. c1450 (?a1370) Wynnere & Wastoure (1990) 352 (MED) He will hafe..Teeles and titmoyses, to take what hym lykes. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 762/32 Hec agredula, a tetmose. 1532 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 412 The sely wrenne, the tytemose also..haue free election To flyen..Where as hem lyst. ?1562 Thersytes sig. D.ii^v The tothe of the tytmus. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. f. 44^v The Nightingale is souereigne of song, Before him sits the Titmose silent bee. β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/2 Tytmouse a byrde, musangere.1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. G5^v Primum parum, Angli uocant the great titmouse or the great oxei.1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K^v Sometimes I wepe To see Tom Tyttimouse, so much set by.1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 61 Finch, Linot, Tit-mouse, Wag-Tail (Cock and Hen).1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 105 Titmise are of divers shapes with us in England.1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 90 Parus Cristatus, the Crested, or Juniper Titmouse.1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 87 The black-headed Titmouse: Parus ater.1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. i. 5 I made..Experiments in compressed Air,..one with the great Titmouse, the other with a Sparrow.1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. p. xxvi Land-Birds which breed and abide in Carolina in the Summer, and retire in Winter:..The yellow Titmouse. The purple Martin. The humming Bird.1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. xxix. 431 The beetle..lies sprawling upon his back; until the little tit-mouse comes, pecks a hole in his side.1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 107 The blue, marsh, and great titmice will, in very severe weather, carry away barley and oat straws from the sides of ricks.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pick-cheese, the tit-mouse.1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 80 The Titmice compose a natural and pretty well defined group.1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ii. 25 When it comes to acrobatic performances in the trees, neither the chickadee nor the titmouse can rival their relatives, the little bluish gray nuthatches.1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 244/1 I discovered a rare bird, then almost unknown,..at Beckenham—a willow titmouse.1998 Nature 17 Sept. 215/1 Food-storing birds such as parids (titmice and chickadees) and corvids (jays, nutcrackers and magpies) readily do this in the laboratory.2013 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard (Nexis) 27 June b9/3 I described the size and location of the nest and Erickson said it could have been a tufted titmouse or a chipping squirrel. b. With distinguishing word. Any of various small songbirds that resemble the true tits in appearance or habits; = tit n.⁴ 3b. Now rare.Most of these birds were traditionally placed with the true tits in the family Paridae but are now assigned to other families.bearded titmouse, bush titmouse, long-tailed titmouse, penduline titmouse, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mesange à la longue queuë, the long-tayled Titmouse. 1734 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 53 (heading) The Long Tail Titmouse. Parus caudatus. 1750 J. T. Klein Historiae avium prodromus 86 The Beard-manica, or bearded Titmouse. 1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Misc. (1860) I. 146 That flock of long-tailed titmice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones. 1875 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. III. 771/1 The wonderful structures which..the Bottle-Titmouse, or the Fantail-Warbler build for their young. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 213 That diminutive little bird, the least bush titmouse (Psaltriparus minimus). 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 217 Another minute species of the titmouse family, the verdin or yellow-headed titmouse. 1960 New Eng. Q. 33 105 There were numerous pictures of unusual animals and birds, such as the Barbary ape and Penduline Titmouse. 1965 Behaviour 24 170 Koenig (1951–2) has observed similar behaviour in the Bearded Titmouse, Panurus biarmicus. 2. A small or insignificant person or thing (sometimes as a term of endearment). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance nekardc1450 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 dandiprat1556 Tom Thumb1579 minim1590 pygmy?1592 titmouse1596 gnatling1614 rye straw1615 nazzard1619 whisk1629 whifling1640 snifty1660 whippersnapper1674 nick-ninny1699 little me1711 squita1825 lightweight1831 lay figure1835 whiffet1839 pinkeen1850 huckleberry1868 bush leaguer1906 knibloch1915 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing minutea1450 minim1590 mite1594 titmouse1596 moteling1605 atom1633 thingling1652 long-little1653 parvitude1659 bodikin1668 eschantillon1720 niff-naff1808 smolt1808 runt1819 titty-tottya1825 featherweight1838 thinglet1839 shable1842 thumb1854 nubbin1857 speckle1882 teeny-weeny1894 hickey1909 tiddler1937 pinhead1951 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V3 ^v Noddy Nash,..his Apostrophe Sonnet, and tynie titmouse Lenuoy, like a welt at the edge of a garment. a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women iii. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 33 You can keep a little Tit-mouse Page there. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius v. 56 Nurse. Wake her? Poor Titmouse. a1750 L. Pilkington Mem. (1754) III. 13 Your little Tom Titmouse of a Husband. 1795 J. O'Keeffe Life's Vagaries v. i. 81 Ah, my little titmouse, suppose..you step and gather a few honeysuckles from the hedge yonder. 1836 C. Dickens Let. ?Feb. (1965) I. 124 Dearest Titmouse Ever yours most Affecy. Charles Dickens. 2005 H. Feldman Broken Rec. 65 My ambition is more important than your worthless life. I'm a successful doctor. You're a titmouse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1325
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