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tit

21 9.0

A small lively songbird with a short thick beak often seen in gardens

noun
/tɪt/

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It's a long tailed tit and a little owl.
a blue tit

Examples

Another has the name of that small songbird known as the blue tit.

Academic text (2009)
Indeed, to us, the male and female blue tit look similar.

Academic text (2009)
This is a great tit, which is a European form of chickadee, and this is an experiment which is done in an aviary.
Along with the starlings, thrushes, blackbirds, and tits, they are tucking into the sunflower seeds, lumps of fat, and half-rotten apples.

Fiction book (1994)
The great tit is known for its distinctive yellow and black plumage.
During winter, many people enjoy watching the blue tit as it flits around their gardens.
In the woods, we spotted a long-tailed tit hopping among the branches.

Synonyms

titmouse

vstit

1 8.8

A small bird with a crest that eats insects

does not have a crest on the head

Idioms

tit for tat

Informal

12 5.8

An action done to hurt someone because they hurt you

cold as a witch's tit

Offensive

1 9.9

Very cold in a way that feels unpleasant

arse over tit

Offensive

1 9.9

To fall in a clumsy way and land head over heels

Compounds

blue tit

1 5.7

A small European songbird with bright blue wings, tail and crown

bush tit

9.9

A small active grey bird from western North America that builds hanging nests

tit-tat-toe

Archaic

4.5

A simple two-player game of X and O on a 3 by 3 grid to make three in a row

wren-tit

9.7

A small brown songbird of western North America that looks like a wren

How Small

wren

5 2.2

tit

21 9.0

sparrow

38 1.0

thrush

4 3.6

starling

20 3.9

Surface Forms

tit singular

tits plural

Etymology

Tit for the small songbird comes from an old word meaning 'small' or 'little', so the name fits a tiny, lively bird you often see in gardens and woods, and you can also spot it in the older word titmouse.