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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A choice morsel, as of gossip or food.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as titbit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tasty morsel (of food, gossip etc.)
  • noun computing, informal A quarter of a byte (Half of a nibble).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small tasty bit of food

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps obsolete and dialectal tid, tender + bit.]

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