| 词源 |
tit; titman. This word has no vulgar connotation among farmers in New England, who often refer to the runt in a litter of pigs as a titman or tit. Tit here derives from an old Germanic word meaning “small,” whereas tit as slang for a woman’s breast comes from the Old English titt. A century ago, titman meant a small or stunted person, as when Thoreau called his generation “a race of titmen.” Titman or tit man, is of course in American slang a male who prefers breasts to any other part of a woman’s anatomy. |