tit|mouse

tit|mouse
tit|mouse «TIHT MOWS», noun, plural -mice.
any one of a family of small birds with short bills and mostly gray feathers, related to the nuthatches and found in nearly all parts of the world: »

The chickadee is the most common North American titmouse (Arthur A. Allen).

[Middle English titemose < tit titmouse + Old English māse titmouse; influenced by mouse]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • tit — Titmouse Tit mouse , n.; pl. {Titmice}. [OE. titemose, titmase; tit small, or a small bird + AS. m[=a]se a kind of small bird; akin to D. mees a titmouse, G. meise, OHG. meisa, Icel. meisingr. The English form has been influenced by the unrelated …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • mouse — coal·mouse; dor·mouse; dor·y·mouse; mouse; mouse·kin; mouse·let; mouse·web; rere·mouse; shear·mouse; tal·mouse; tit·mouse; za·mouse; mouse·ling; …   English syllables

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