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tittle

noun
/ˈtɪt.əl/UK

Etymology

From Middle English titillen, tytyllen, perhaps variants of Middle English tutelen (“to whisper, chatter”), from tutel (“mouth”), from Old English *tūtel, *tȳtel, related to Old Frisian tūte (“mouth”). Compare Middle English touten (“to jut out, project, protrude”), Middle English toute (“projection, mound, hill”), Middle Dutch tûte (whence modern Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle, nose, point, peak, summit”)), Old Norse túta (“a teat-like prominence”), Danish tude (“spout”).

  1. derived from titulus — “title”
  2. derived from titulus — “small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”
  3. derived from titil
  4. inherited from tytle

Definitions

  1. Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a…

    Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.

    • The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
    • The words "jot" and "tittle" in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
    • (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er) "tittles")

  2. A small, insignificant amount (of something)

    A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.

  3. To chatter.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

jot and tittle, tittle-tattler, tittle-tattling, to a tittle

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA