Teat

Definition: Teat

Teat

Noun

1. The small projection of a mammary gland.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "teat" was first used: sometime around 1250. (references)

Etymology: Teat \Teat\, noun. [from Old English expression tete, titte, Anglo-Saxon tit, titt; akin to Low German OD. titte, Dutch tet, German zitze: compare to the French expression tette, probably of Teutonic origin.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

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Synonyms: Teat

Convexity

Papilla, nipple, teat,papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla.

Crosswords: Teat

I've dated enough narcissistically neurotic men to know that you are all just a pack of roving babies in search of a giant teat from which to suck the lifeblood out of me until I am a hollow shell (200 Cigarettes; writing credit: Shana Larsen)

You never had your hands on a teat before (Witness; writing credit: William Kelley; Earl W. Wallace)

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Books

• Glass Teat (reference)

• Proceedings of the Eleventh Aes International Conference on Audio Teat and Measurement (reference)

• Teat the Saga of Isaiah Dorman American Frontiersman Interpreter for General Custer and Friend to Chief Sitting Bull (reference)

• The Other Glass Teat (reference)

  (more book examples)

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In those viviparous animals which feed on grass, the conjunction between male and female lasts no longer than the very act of copulation; because the teat of the dam being sufficient to nourish the young, till it be able to feed on grass, the male only begets, but concerns not himself for the female or young, to whose sustenance he can contribute nothing. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "teat": dummy teat ♦ teat nipple. Additional references.

Albanian

thithë (dummy), thimth (nipple). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حلمة الثدي عند الحيوانات, ‏حلمة الثدي عند البقرة, ‏حلمة الثدي (dug, nipple, pap), ‏الحلمة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

цапфа (gudgeon, journal, pin, tenon, tongue, wrist, wrist pin), цица, зърно на гърда (nipple, pap), зърно на виме, дръжка във форма на топка. (various references)

Chinese 

奶头. (various references)

Czech

vemeno (dug, udder), struk (nipple, shell), dudlík (comforter, dummy, pacifier), cecek, bradavka. (various references)

Danish

sut (baby-bottle mouth piece, comforter, dummy, nipple, pacifier, teat nipple), patte (suck). (various references)

Dutch

tiet (breast), mam (breast, mam, mammy, mom, mommy), borst (bosom, breast, chest, youngster, youth). (various references)

Esperanto

mamo (breast). (various references)

Faeroese

kvinnubróst (breast), bróst (breast), boppa (breast, nipple). (various references)

Farsi 

پستانک (Pacifier), ممه (Pap), نوک پستان (Breast, Dug, Nipple, Pap), شبیه نوک پستان . (various references)

Finnish

nisä (breast). (various references)

French

trayon, tétine (teat cup liner, teat nipple), mamelle. (various references)

German

Zitze (dug, nipple), sauger (dummy, nipple, pacifier, vacuum), Brustwarze (nipple). (various references)

Greek 

θηλή μαστού, θηλή (nipple, papilla). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�" (bosom, breast, nipple), פטמ�" (nipple), עטין (brisket, dug, udder), �"�" (bosom, breast, brisket, dug, nipple, tap). (various references)

Hungarian

csöcs (dug). (various references)

Indonesian

bengek (asthma). (various references)

Italian

tettarella (baby-bottle mouth piece, nipple, pacifier, teat nipple), capezzolo (dug, nipple). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乳首 (nipple), 乳� � (nipple). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にゅうとう (bathing at hot springs, joining a political party, lactose, milk sugar, nipple, taking a hot bath), ちくび (nipple), ちちくび (nipple). (various references)

Manx

sheeiney (boob, breast, dug, mamilla, nipple, pap). (various references)

Papiamen

tete (breast, udder). (various references)

Pig Latin

eattay.(various references)

Portuguese

teta (breast, dug, nipple, udder), mamilo (breast, breast-nipple, nipple), mama (breast, mamma, momma). (various references)

Romanian

uger (bag, dug, udder), sfârc (mamilla, nipple, pap), mamelon (mamelon, nipple, pap), gurgui (toe), ţâţã (breast, dug, udder). (various references)

Russian 

сосок (dug, nipple, pap). (various references)

Scottish

sine (a teat, a. older, nipple). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sisa na vimenu, sisa (boob, breast, knocker, mamma), bradavica na dojci. (various references)

Spanish

teta (boob, dug, pap), tetina (baby-bottle mouth piece, nipple, teat nipple), pezón (nipple, stalk). (various references)

Swedish

spene (dug, nipple, udder), napp (bite, rise). (various references)

Turkish

meme ucu (nipple), meme başı (nipple), meme (booby, breast, dug, lobe, mamilla, mamma, mammilla, mammo-, nipple, nose, pap, spray nozzle, udder), emzik (cigarette holder, comforter, nipple, nose, pacifier). (various references)

Ukrainian

сосок (nipple), виступ (address, appearance, corbel, gibbosity, jut, ledge, nib, offset, overhang, projection, promontory, protrusion, salience, salient, shoulder, snag, spine, ward). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đầu vú (mamilla, mamillae, mammilla). (various references)

Welsh

teth, diden (nipple). (various references)

Yucatec

iim (bosom, breast, chest, udder). (various references)

ubur. (various references)

mamilla, mamillas, mamma, papilla, papilla mammae, uber. (various references)

tete. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "teat": teated, teatime, teatimes, teats. (additional references)

Words ending with "teat": outeat. (additional references)

Words containing "teat": anteater, anteaters, bracteate, outeaten, outeating, outeats, steatite, steatites, steatitic, steatopygia, steatopygias, steatopygic, steatopygous, steatorrhea, steatorrheas. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Teat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atat, etad, etag, etait, etat, etate, ettelaat, taat, taet, tata, teab, teaf, teag, teah, teaj, tealth, teap, teaq, teart, teath, teau, teav, teaw, teax, teaz, tect, teet, teft, teit, teja, telant, telt, teot, teqat, terat, tert, teta, tett, teut, teva, tewa, tewt, teza, theat, theet, tiat, tieat, tita, titat, toait, trat, tseet, tuat, Tuath, Tueart, tuit, tweat, Tybalt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tate.

-1 letter: ate, att, eat, eta, tae, tat, tea, tet.

-2 letters: ae, at, et, ta.

+1 letter: betta, latte, matte, state, tacet, taste, tater, tates, teats, tecta, testa, tetra, theta, treat.

+2 letters: aptest, astute, attend, attent, attest, attire, attune, batted, batten, batter, battle, battue, bettas, catted, cattie, cattle, cottae, estate, extant, fatted, fatten, fatter, guttae, hatted, hatter, latent, latest, latten, latter, lattes, lyttae, matted, matter, mattes, metate, mutate, natter, notate, nutate, outate, outeat, patent, patted, pattee, patten, patter, pattie, ratite, ratted, ratten, ratter, rattle, rotate, stacte, stated, stater, states, statue, tablet, tacket, talent, tamest, tapeta, tappet, target, tarted, tarter, tasset, tasted, taster, tastes, taters, tatted, tatter, tattie, tattle, tauted, tauten, tauter, taxite, teapot, teated, tectal, tenant, testae, tetany, tetrad, tetras, thetas, threat, togate, treats, treaty, tubate, vatted, vittae, watter, wattle, yatter.