titch

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/tɪt͡ʃ/

noun

A very small person; a small child.

“I'll have just a titch more cake.”

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

titch1

nountitch (plural titches)

plural titches

  1. UKcolloquialA very small person; a small child.

    I ain't afraid of a titch like you.

    1 more example

    We called him Titch because he was a tiny little man, and he had a mop of black hair.

    1995, Philip Mitchell, One Moonlit Night, translation of Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard, page 106
  2. UKcolloquialA small amount.

    Is there any milk left? Just a titch.

titch2

nountitch (plural titches)

plural titches

  1. colloquialA small amount of something.

    I'll have just a titch more cake.

    1 more example

    “...and just a titch of my special pepper sauce over these turnip greens, everybody loves turnip greens.”

    1988, Howard Lewis Russell, Rush to Nowhere, page 148
verbtitch (third-person singular simple present titches, present participle titching, simple past and past participle titched)

present singular third person titches · participle present titching · participle past titched · past titched

  1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of touch.

    Vur Bob eszul wis awful titch'd An went jist like a hoss a witch'd.

    1865, Nathan Hogg, Poetical Letters, page 63
    1 more example

    There was some sort of affray between you and Flood. The constables separated you. What led to this? […] I titched Noah and Noah titched me and my hat falled off.

    1894, Sabine Baring-Gould, Kitty Alone, page 120

titch3

verbtitch (third-person singular simple present titches, present participle titching, simple past and past participle titched)

present singular third person titches · participle present titching · participle past titched · past titched

  1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of teach.

    “yass, dass all right: but how we know you titch English? Nobody can’t tell you titchin’ him right or no.”

    1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, page 114

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

titch · noun

  1. Old Englishticcen“young goat”
  2. Englishtitch

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”).

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titch · noun, verb

  1. Middle Englishtechen
  2. Englishtitch

From Middle English techen, tüchen, variant or dialectal forms of Middle English touchen (“to touch”).

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titch · verb

Variant or colloquial pronunciation of teach.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

titch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titch

MLA

“titch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titch. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “titch,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titch.

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