Citations:tittish

information about definition

 * 1818, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language:
 * Te'ttish.* adj. [perhaps a corruption of tetchy. The Scotch use tittish in this sense, which Dr. Jamieson has noticed, with a reference of it to tit, a stroke. This etymon may be doubted.] Captious; testy; ill-humoured.
 * cf EDD&apos;s tiltish (with l) as "uppish, touchy, ready to take offence", "of a horse, apt to kick"

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 * 1690 December 30, a letter from the viscount Tarbat to the earl of Melvill, published in 1843, Letters and State Papers chiefly addressed to George Earl of Melville, page 590:
 * [...] and none knowes how soone, and at what, there tittish fancy will startle; and ( to my regrate) I dared not advise to introduce what would be unpleasant to them, untill the King were in a fixt residence, [...]

related to 'tit' (breast)

 * 1980, Gavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart, 1933-1980: Poems:
 * Or being British (though DHL was so cuntish and tittish)?