titty n.
1. (also tee-tee, tiddy) a woman’s breast; usu. in pl.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘An Exmoor Courtship’ in Gent.’s Mag. June n.p.: Es wont ha’ my Tetties a grabbed zo [R]. | |
| et al. ‘Collin’s Seven Ages’ in Festival of Anacreon (1810) 77: Hushaby, wipe an eye, / Kissee pretty, suckee titty. | |
| Pierce Egan’s Life in London 2 Apr. 491/1: [T]hink of a girl of seventeen or a boy of twenty years old calling for pap or titty, which papa and mamma literally signify. | |
| Cythera’s Hymnal 10: He thought it so pretty to play with her titty. | |
| ‘La Rose d’Amour’ in Pearl 9 Mar. 3: I was so much taken with [...] her immense large titties. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) IX 1837: I beckoned to her [...] pleased with her opulent titties and massive hair. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 6 Sept. 1/2: Why is the opera of Boccaccio like the National Art Gallery? Because it contains a lot of nice ‘new ditties’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Town-Bull 24: I kissed mouth, titties, belly, buttocks, thighs, slit. | |
| School Life in Paris 15: The points of my ‘tiddies’ [...] stood up under the clever workings of their tongues. | |
| Forbidden Fruit n.p.: My beautiful Mamma, do let me kiss your lovely titties? | |
| Memoirs of Madge Buford 83: I lifted my plump titties out of my clothes and [...] he covered them with kisses. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Ulysses 704: Yes I think he made them a bit firmer sucking them like that so long he made me thirsty titties he calls them I had to laugh. | |
| Call It Sleep (1977) 89: Cry baby, cry baby, suck yer mudder’s tiddy! | |
| ‘All Around Man’ 🎵 Now I ain’t no milkman, no milkman’s son, / I can pull your titties ’til the milkman comes. | |
| None But the Lonely Heart 64: Then you stood a chance of getting squashed between a couple of brides, young ones, so their behinds stuck in you and you could feel their titties rolling about. | |
| Ginger Man (1958) 174: Did your mother come from Jesus / With her hair as white as snow / And the greatest pair of titties / The world did ever know. | |
| With Hooves of Brass 80: ‘Boy, did you get them two titties of her? Squatting there on the table like a couple of rabbits!’ . | |
| Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 31: His papa would take him off the titty and put him on the corn-liquor jug. | |
| Ruling Class Prologue: There’s always room at the top for brains, money or a good pair of titties. | |
| Pimp 80: Give me that scratch you had between your tiddies. | |
| S.R.O. (1998) 78: ‘Take your hands off my titties’. | |
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 117: The delicious gut-wrenching agony of the time in my life when titty was king and I never even knew girls had cunts. | |
| Drylongso 231: What I really needed was some tiddy squeezin’ and pussy teasin’. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Cat’s Eye (1989) 93: It’s for pumping your titties up bigger, like a bicycle pump. | |
| Homeboy 25: [of gay men] Men, bearded mostly [...] flashing flabby hairy titties squeezed in pushup bras. | |
| Green River Rising 236: [They] pleaded with her to suck their cocks and show them her tee-tees. | |
| (con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 57: Young Asian girl with a fine set of titties like that. | |
| Snitch Jacket 153: Pixilated black dots floated over their pubes and titties. | |
| Running the Books 55: Bitch, I’m gonna cut your damn titties off. | |
| Sellout (2016) 72: What I first loved about Marpessa [was] her unabashed inappropriateness. I guess I loved her titties too. | |
| Blacktop Wasteland 202: A week ago, he was snorting coke off some hipster chick’s titty’. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 516: ‘[Y]ou wouldn’t know unless there’s a crash... then it’ll pop out and hit you in the titties’. |
2. (also tittie) attrib. use of sense 1.
| Augie March (1996) 187: The street too was aphrodisiac, the honkytonks and titty photos, legs with sequins. | |
| Strip Tease 35: You still workin’ at that tittie place? | |
| Winter of Frankie Machine (2007) 107: You’re a mediocre cook and a night manager at a titty joint. | |
| Last Kind Words 154: Like every syndicate guy who did business out of a bar or a titty joint [etc]. | |
| Shore Leave 69: [A]n ordinary-looking office with titty calendars and filing cabinets. |
3. milk.
| ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:v 382: titty, n. A woman’s breast, a teat; also, milk from the breast. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Hangover 156: Mother’s milk – that’s why it’s so sacred [...] Baby wants his titty. | |
| Garden of Sand (1981) 17: ‘Want some titty, too?’ She waved her unoccupied breast at him. |
4. (W.I., also tittie, tittuh) a woman, as a term of address, lit. ‘sister’.
| Black Border 139: ‘Yaas, tittie! You talk trute!’ [Ibid.] 333: Tittie/Tittuh – sister (informal). |
5. in fig. use, a source of nourishment; also attrib.
| Disinherited 191: They got to have wet nurses in some of the factories to change didies and give titty to some of the kids they hire. | |
| Christ in Concrete 127: He was the half-pint jerk-off, he was godson, he was the titty-drinker. | |
| ‘Tom’ in Carols of an Old Codger 121: Such guts for learning had the lad; / He took to Greek like babe to titty. | |
| Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 240: Go and put some titty into her. | |
| Rivethead (1992) 8: Most of their fathers were dedicated shoprats, shackled to some factory titty like hornets to honey. |
6. (US) a woman.
| Seeds of Man (1995) 260: Me ’n’ you’s got too much ta lose, Wood Eye, ta let a coupla perty titties throw us over onta th’ boney pile. |
In compounds
(US) a striptease or lap-dancing bar.
| Native Tongue 143: Let’s go to a tittie bar. | |
| High Concept 203: He wanted me to take him [...] to a titty bar. | |
| Peepshow [ebook] Tim’s never been to a titty bar before. | |
| Them (2008) 32: Been over to the titty bar on Piedmont Road. | |
| ‘More with Less’ Wire ser. 5 ep. 1 [TV script] It’s a sweetheart deal for a titty-bar owner with a big criminal history. | |
| Thrill City [ebook] I’d flaunted my modest jugs in most of the titty bars in the greater Melbourne area. | |
| Alphaville (2011) 346: In the eighties titty bars [...] were grittier and generally a lot friendlier. | |
| August Snow [ebook] My favorite ad—a titty bar in Romulus, Michigan, called Stump Grinders, ‘where our proud amputee military veterans always get half-price drinks and buffalo wings’. | |
| ‘Broken’ in Broken 32: ‘A white cop in a titty bar in the Ninth?’. |
a small or developing breast.
| Pain Killers 22: They [i.e. trans-sexuals] like to show off their titty beans. |
a baby’s feeding bottle.
| Coburg Leader (Vic.) 9 Nov. 4/1: The cads say they are going to give a ‘titty bottle’ a ‘teething neck lace’ and ‘a dummy’ to Oily Gammon. | |
| Warwickshire Word-Book 245: Titty-bottle. An infant’s feeding-bottle. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 7 Dec. 1/4: [He] had been weaned on pain-killer, or methylated spirit, sucked direct from the titty-bottle. | |
| Christ in Concrete 109: Have you brought your titty bottle with the nipple? | |
| Smoke in the Lanes 185: Where’s Kizzy’s titty-bottle? |
(Aus.) a calendar featuring half-dressed pinups.
| I Am Already Dead 132: [A] kitchen of some sort with an ancient titty calendar, and a chipped veneer pantry door. |
(US) a striptease club.
| Gutshot Straight [ebook] [H]e used his titty clubs to launder money from his drug operation. |
see under tit fuck.
(UK black) a consciously sexy young woman.
| Crumple Zone 140: You get a loada titty girls come down [...] Like bra, panty, mobi, wraps an’ disco powder. |
(US) a (softcore) pornographic magazine.
| Love Is a Racket 50: I read. And I’m not just talking about titty magazines. | |
| Thrill City [ebook] A titty-mag hack whoi’d gone to the dark side and started reporting crime. |
(US) intercourse in which the man rubs his penis between the woman’s breasts.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases 209: titty oggy (Vulg.) Mammary Intercourse with the penis, by inserting it between the Breasts and pressing them around the shaft, then Coiting. |
a film, not actually pornographic, featuring bare female breasts.
| Guardian Rev. 8 Oct. 27: The chick flicks, the teen-centric titty pix, and all the other cinematic detritus. |
In phrases
(US) dependent on someone (for money, work, protection, etc); thus off someone’s titty.
| Carlito’s Way 118: Your Uncle Dom is dead, you’re off his titty Rocco, you’re on your own. | |
| (con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 346: I, along with a thousand or so of my my cubicle world soulmates, resumed my rightful place at Ma Bell’s titty. |
(Aus.) to bet confidently.
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 75: ‘You bet your sweet titties...ummm...life it was,’ said Big Oscar. |
(US black) to fight.
| Modern English 57: bumping titties (v): Fighting. | |
| Black Talk. | |
 | Thug’s Journal 10 Apr. 🌐 Any nigger perpetrates, I bump titties. |
(US) to depend on, to act as a parasite towards.
| Carlito’s Way 88: You been sucking Earl’s titty all your life. |
(US black) general derog. term; implication is of weakness, immaturity.
| S.R.O. (1998) 164: ‘Don’t need no titty-sucking pigs in here. I’m gonna kill this here thieving bastid all by my lonesome’. | |
| About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 71: ‘That Red Man,’ [i.e. chewing tobacco] said Hanneman. ‘That’s just like candy. Baseball players chew that. Baseball is a titty-pulling sport.’. |
(Aus.) obsessed with the female breasts to the point of absurdity.
| (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 7: Tittie-whipped into believing they had a personal, intimate relationship [...] with some of the strippers. |
bad luck; thus tough tits, toots, a phr. of dismissal; also as n. (see cit. 2001).
| ‘A Casual Incident’ in Short Stories (1937) 143: It’s just your tough tiddy, then. | |
| Disinherited 162: I got a tough titty fer a job. | |
| (con. 1920s) Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 246: That’s his tough tiddy. | |
| Thieves Like Us (1999) 6: I’ve had plenty of tough teaty in my day, but this is the toughest. | |
| Seraph on the Suwanee (1995) 749: It would be tough titty at that. | |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s 93: Well, so tough titty. | |
| Long Run (1983) 63: ‘Tough tit,’ Whiskers said. | |
| Riot (1967) 71: Tough titty! We’ll bust her in the mouth. | |
| Dear ‘Herm’ 259: ‘Tough titty’ I offer. | |
| False Starts 154: Tough tit. | |
| Dry Hustle 202: Well, tough tits, I’m off duty. | |
| Nam (1982) 109: They never had any [...] evacuation plan. If we got overrun, it was just tough titties. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 388: Since added to with such common phrases as [...] tough titty, hard luck. | |
| Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery 121: ‘I’m completely stymied.’ ‘Tough titty.’. | |
| Hooky Gear 60: Only tough titty the graves is all unknown soldiers. | |
| OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 titty (tough... ) n. hard luck. | |
| Panopticon (2013) 187: ‘I’ll fucking hate it. I’m not going.’ [...] ‘Tough titties’. | |
| (con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘Well, your bigshot cobbers decided against it as I recall, so tough titty’. | |
| Finders Keepers (2016) 155: Doesn’t like it when the shoe’s on the other foot [...] Isn’t that just tough titty. | |
| Razorblade Tears 75: ‘I didn’t bring a gun.’ [...] ‘Tough titty’. |