teat

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
    — 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.
  2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
  3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

词形变化

teats plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cold as a witch's teat glass teat hind teat mare's teat mare's teat grape teated teatless teatlike witch's teat
相关词
breast mammary gland tit udder

词源

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”).
It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).
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