titmouse

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English titmose, compound of tit (“small bird”) and mose, from Old English māse (“titmouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (compare Dutch mees, German Meise, Old Norse meisingr, French mésange), from *maisaz (“tiny, puny”) (compare Norwegian meis (“skinny weakling”)). Spelling as well as the plural form in imitation of the otherwise unrelated mouse. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɪtmaʊs/ === Noun === titmouse (plural titmice or titmouses) Any small passerine bird mostly of the genus Baeolophus, which are found in the woods of the Northern Hemisphere and of Africa. ==== Synonyms ==== tit ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === chickadee Pseudopodoces Baeolophus Melanochlora Sylviparus === References === titmouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “titmouse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “titmouse, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2019. === Anagrams === time outs, time-outs, timeouts, times out, tsumoite