Definition of "tit"

I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.

2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 13

Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."

2006, Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision

Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.

1987, “A Conflict of Interest”, in Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, directors, Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), BBC2

I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.

2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Errol (Andy Beckwith)

“What did you say to the cops?”“I told them everything about the smuggling ring.”“Why the fuck did you do that?”“They were nice to me.”“They’re always nice to people they want to get information from, you dumb tit.”

2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed‎, iUniverse, page 234

John Watson (to Sherlock Holmes): It's Lestrade. Says they're all coming over here right now. Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit. Which is a lot of people.

2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 00:52:46-00:52:55

Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?

1897 , John Webster, “Northward Hoe”, in The Dramatic Works of John Webster‎, page 203

they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.

1623, James Mabbe, The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache‎, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán

[…] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.

1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, page 66

Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad looking tit,” said St. Leger, as they went along.

1854, Charles James Collins, The life and adventures of Dick Diminy, page 156

Gossiping, and smoothing the horse's mane down with his hand, "A nice little tit," said the man.

1862, Robert Kemp Philp, The Family friend, page 362

I shall keep my eye open, and the first pretty little tit I see that I think will suit you, I shall make the guv'nor buy.

2019, George Manville Fenn, Cursed by a Fortune

"What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"

1843, Charles James C. Davidson, Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India

But I don't mind; she's a pretty little tit, and Dick has taught her to call me uncle.

1887, George Manville Fenn, The Master of the Ceremonies, page 44

What, I suppose, Mr. Loader, you will be for your old friend the black ey'd girl, from Rosemary Lane. Ha ha! Well, 'tis a merry little tit. A thousand pities she's such a reprobate!

2013, Vic Gatrell, The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age, page xcix

Now if you can shew so neat a foot, ( shewing her shoe ) —Parlez moi de ça : —I suppose I was not noble enough for this squire; he must have a bit a blood, a tit of quality — but I shall be a countess soon, and a mighty good sort of countess I shall make.

1813, James Lawrence, The Englishman at Verdun; Or the Prisoner of Peace, page 44

Being drunk , he remembers not a tit of life before the drink came well home. It is not that he sees the past mistily; he does not see at all. He lives then only in as much of the present as the word of his master for the time being […]

1951, Thomas Henry MacDermot, Tom Redcam, Orange Valley, and Other Poems, page 66

Would we understand woman if we took her whole instead of tit by tit?

1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 236

The one farthest from the river was the largest and tallest; they decreased in size toward the river, until the fourth was little more than a tit of rock jutting up out of the prairie.

1999, Benjamin Capps, A Woman of the People, page 78