teat
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5.9
- noun
- /tiːt/
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- The piglet eagerly latched onto its mother's teat for a nutritious meal.
- teats and udders
- teat length
- fore teat
They also don't use teat dips, no chlorine sanitizers anywhere on the farms or in the dairies.
- They also don't use teat dips, no chlorine sanitizers anywhere on the farms or in the dairies.
- I don't need to be constantly sucking social media teats, right?
Examples
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Milkitza grazed slowly while the calf, her head tilted, nudged the teats with her wet, pink nose.
Fiction book (1998) -
Puss only drank when one of its mother's teats happened to pop into its tiny mouth when she stretched.
Fiction book (2002) -
The skin of her fingers was dark against the pink teat skin.
Fiction book (1997) -
Pregnant dogs have lots of teats that hang very low.
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The problem with teats is that they are usually attached to cows.
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Where were you when Paul was suckling at his mother's teat?
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There's 11 pigs and only 10 teats.
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Bruno relaxed and stretched his hands to the cow teats and pulled, alternating, now one, now the other.
Fiction book (1998) -
Platypuses, which lay eggs and then nurse the hatchlings, have the disadvantage of not having teats on their mammary glands.
Fiction book (1999) -
Farmers often check the health of cows by observing their teats for signs of infection.
Synonyms
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3.5
The small raised part on a breast where milk comes from
27
9.6
A small bump on an animal's breast that young use to drink milk
17
9.9
A small nipple on an animal that feeds its young
A small round part of the breast that a baby sucks to get milk
A small round part on the breast where a baby sucks to get milk
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Teat comes from an old German word meaning 'small breast' and is related to the simple English word tit, which also means 'small'. So a teat is the little nipple animals use for feeding their young.