titch

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɪt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ɪtʃ === Etymology 1 === From the stage name Little Tich; see tich. Attested since the 1880s. Possibly also from, or influenced by, a word from Old English ticcen (“young goat”). ==== Noun ==== titch (plural titches) (British, colloquial) A very small person; a small child. (British, colloquial) A small amount. ===== Derived terms ===== titchy ==== See also ==== tich === Etymology 2 === From Middle English techen, tüchen, variant or dialectal forms of Middle English touchen (“to touch”). ==== Noun ==== titch (plural titches) (colloquial) A small amount of something. ==== Verb ==== titch (third-person singular simple present titches, present participle titching, simple past and past participle titched) Pronunciation spelling of touch. === Etymology 3 === Variant or colloquial pronunciation of teach. ==== Verb ==== titch (third-person singular simple present titches, present participle titching, simple past and past participle titched) Pronunciation spelling of teach. === References === == Scots == === Etymology === From Old Scots tuich or twych, from Old French tochier. === Verb === titch (third-person singular simple present titches, present participle titchin, simple past and past participle titched) archaic spelling of touch === Noun === titch (plural titches) archaic spelling of touch === References === “touch” in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh, retrieved 12 June 2018. == Yola == === Alternative forms === tick, thick === Etymology === From Middle English tiche, tik-, from Old English tiċċen, from Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɪt͡ʃ/, /tɪk/, /t̪ɪk/ === Noun === titch kid === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72