tomtit

[ tom-tit ]

/ ˈtɒmˌtɪt /

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noun British Dialect.

a titmouse.

any of various other small birds, as the wren.

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Origin of tomtit

1700–10; Tom (Thumb) + tit¹

Words nearby tomtit

Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of, Tomsk, tomtate, Tom Thumb, tomtit, tom-tom, -tomy, to my mind, ton, tonal

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How to use tomtit in a sentence

Tinker hopped round him as nimbly as a tomtit or a jackdaw, and presently gave him another little taste of his steel.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks|Bracebridge Hemyng
Malaga, whose 'fancy' is a little tomtit of a fiddler of eighteen, cannot in conscience make such a boy marry the girl.
Parisians in the Country|Honore de Balzac
Then a tomtit or other small bird comes along and eats the maggot.
The Romance of Plant Life|G. F. Scott Elliot
The tomtit told me just now in the fir-tree; the woodpecker told him on his promising that he would not tell anybody else.
Wood Magic|Richard Jefferies

Oh,” replied tomtit, “I remember it quite well, although it was so many years ago.
Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories|Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for tomtit

tomtit

/ (ˈtɒmˌtɪt) /

noun

British any of various tits, esp the bluetit

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