Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small bird, such as a titmouse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Some little bird; a tit or titling.
- noun The wren, Troglodytes parvulus.
- noun The green tody of Jamaica, Todus viridis. See cut under
tody .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. A titmouse, especially the blue titmouse.
- noun Prov. Eng. The wren.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
tom-tit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head
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Examples
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Ah, yes! the tomtit is the embodiment and poetry of nimbleness.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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No one can deny that the tomtit is a companionable little fellow.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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Last year, to complete the change, a tomtit was pleased to build her nest within the lock of the Tolbooth, — a strong temptation to have committed a sonnet, had the Author, like Tony Lumpkin, been in a concatenation accordingly.
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And inside of me I was singing as small as a tomtit.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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Titmarshes and Hoggartys, viz., a tomtit rampant and a hog in armour.
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The word is most common in American English in combinations that denote various small birds, such as the titmouse or tomtit.
Archive 2006-11-01 Karyn 2006
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The word is most common in American English in combinations that denote various small birds, such as the titmouse or tomtit.
"Titmen" are Pigs Karyn 2006
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There was no cover for a tomtit in those bald green places.
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The tomtit is like its English namesake in shape, but smaller, and with a glossy black head and bright yellow breast.
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Not a bird was to be seen, except occasionally a tomtit, some of the
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