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Titte has been used in German since the 20th century to mean " female breast ".

The words are assigned to the vulgar vocabulary . In this context, there Kompositabildungen as tits bag , tits holder and tits lifter for bra .

In Middle High German was tute or tutte the breast or the nipple. The diminutive was tütelīn and denoted the nipple (papilla mamma). In Low German , Titte corresponds to the word teat meaning 'nipple'. The German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm confirms the age and meanings of variants such as tutte , tüttel and dütte , which could also mean the male breast. It is a joke . By shifting the sound , it became a teat with a restricted meaning. According to Grimm, Titze had about the same meaning and connotation with regard to women as Titte today and was assigned to colloquial and vulgar language: "[...] in modern language often has the connotation of contemptuous, coarse or at least frankly natural when referring to the breast of women , also with the subsidiary term ugly. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Kluge, Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , 24th edition, 2002, Lemma Titte .
  2. ↑ After Mackensen. Large German Dictionary , 1977, Lemma Titte .
  3. ^ Matthias von Lexer : Middle High German Pocket Dictionary in the last edition. 1882, (2nd edition of the 3rd edition from 1885, 1958 supplemented with a supplement. 24th edition, with supplements by Ulrich Pretzel , Stuttgart 1974. With a foreword by Erwin Koller, Werner Wegstein and Norbert Richard Wolf and a biographical outline by Horst Brunner, Hirzel, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7776-0494-1 ).
  4. ↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 181.
  5. ↑ According to Kluge, Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , 24th Edition, 2002, Lemmata Titte und Zitze .
  6. ^ German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm, article Titte , Tütte and Zitze