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tomtit

/tom-tit/US // ˈtɒmˌtɪt //UK // (ˈtɒmˌtɪt) //

番茄酱,蕃薯,蕃薯条

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British Dialect.

    • : a titmouse.
    • : any of various other small birds, as the wren.

Examples

  • Tinker hopped round him as nimbly as a tomtit or a jackdaw, and presently gave him another little taste of his steel.

  • Malaga, whose 'fancy' is a little tomtit of a fiddler of eighteen, cannot in conscience make such a boy marry the girl.

  • Then a tomtit or other small bird comes along and eats the maggot.

  • The tomtit told me just now in the fir-tree; the woodpecker told him on his promising that he would not tell anybody else.

  • Oh,” replied tomtit, “I remember it quite well, although it was so many years ago.