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teat

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4 lettersPronunciation /tiːt/Part of speech nounSorted aettStarts with TEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the small projection of a mammary gland

Word origin

From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *tittā, *tittō, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Compare Old High German zizza ("teat"; modern German Zitze), whence also Italian zizza (“teat”).

Used in a sentence

  • Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.

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