titty skittle
- noun
- Slang
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- The children grabbed handfuls of titty skittles from the candy bowl.
Examples
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Someone spilled a pack of titty skittles all over the table.
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Can you pass me a titty skittle?
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She filled the party bags with brightly colored titty skittles.
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I love titty skittles for their vibrant colors.
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She filled the party bags with brightly colored titty skittles.
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The children grabbed handfuls of titty skittles from the candy bowl.
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Someone spilled a pack of titty skittles all over the table.
Synonyms
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Small colorful fruit-flavored chewy candies sold in bags
Surface Forms
Morphology
titty + skittle
The meaning 'a colorful piece of candy' is not derivable from the parts: 'titty' is slang/unclear and 'skittle' is either a game pin or a brand name, so their literal combination does not predict a generic candy sense. Because the constituents are slang/ambiguous or nonstandard and the phrase appears to be informal/nonce slang rather than a regular compositional compound, a B1 learner who knows the parts would not reliably infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Titty skittle may come from mixing a playful word titty, meaning a cute, tiny thing, with the candy name skittle, known for small, colorful sweets. Picture a little bright tablet or bead that looks cute and tiny, and that's why the phrase means 'a small colorful sweet'.