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tomtit

[ tom-tit ]

noun

British Dialect.
  1. a titmouse.
  2. any of various other small birds, as the wren.


tomtit

/ ˈɒˌɪ /

noun

  1. any of various tits, esp the bluetit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of tomtit1

1700–10; Tom (Thumb) + tit 1
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Seven of 17 balls was less hawk and more tomtit.

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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.:

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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.

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Tit, tit, n. one of various small birds, a pipit, tomtit, or titmouse.

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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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