tomtit
Americannoun
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a titmouse.
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any of various other small birds, as the wren.
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of tomtit
1700–10; Tom (Thumb) + tit 1
Example Sentences
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Seven of 17 balls was less hawk and more tomtit.
From BBC
Ecclesiastical tomtits may twitter and flutter, and theological owls may look solemn and wise and hoot out their gloomy forebodings, but the true ark of Nature’s covenant is safe.:
From Project Gutenberg
Three weeks afterwards he went to inquire after its health, and found that a robin had built her nest in one of the pockets, and a tomtit had utilized a sleeve for the same purpose.
From Project Gutenberg
Tit, tit, n. one of various small birds, a pipit, tomtit, or titmouse.
From Project Gutenberg
A pair of Scotch tomtits, however, thought otherwise, and they made a comfortable little nest at the back of a private letter-box, nailed on to the trunk of a tree in Dumfriesshire.
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