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From: "Gordon Barlow" <>
Subject: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:08:46 -0700
References: <004001c418e2$529fb3d0$0cf8eb18@wordcruncher>

> Chambers Dictionary of the English Language says -
>
> tit -
>
> - a contemptuous person
[Bruce]

Interesting. In my experience, it is used for a contemptible person, not a
contemptuous one! Anybody else? I wonder if the cloistered academics at
Chambers made a mistake.

Gordon

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• [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>
  • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by Lee Quinn <>
    • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by hens <>
      • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits => bits and pieces of Aphrodite by "Israel \"izzy\" Cohen" <>
    • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>
      • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Bruce Todd" <>

        • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>

          • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Bruce Todd" <>
    • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits - Titch by Lee Quinn <>
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