tuit

English

Etymology

A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.

Noun

tuit (plural tuits)

  1. (humorous) Synonym of round tuit.
    • 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>, "Tuit", message-ID <538pjq$nn1@orm.southern.co.nz>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:
      THIS IS A TUIT
    • 2000 December 7, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.org>, "Tuit Update", message-ID <3a2ed57b.471201@news.earthlink.net>, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet [2]:
      My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.
    • 2002 Mat 25, Scott W. Harvey <fromrarp@scottharvey.com>, "1953 BEITMAN MANUAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD", message-ID <3cf2b4de.159435990@enews.newsguy.com>, rec.antiques.radio+phono, Usenet [3]:
      1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

    Borrowed from Spanish tuit.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    tuit m (plural tuits)

    1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)
      Synonyms: piulada, tweet

    Derived terms

    Dutch

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /tœy̯t/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: tuit
    • Rhymes: -œy̯t

    Etymology 1

    From Middle Dutch tute. Cognate with German Tüte (bag). Further origin unknown.

    Noun

    tuit n (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)

    1. a spout
    2. (obsolete) lock of hair
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Afrikaans: tuit

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    tuit

    1. inflection of tuiten:
      1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
      2. imperative

    Finnish

    Verb

    tuit

    1. second-person singular past indicative of tukea

    Anagrams

    Irish

    Noun

    tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)

    1. alternative form of toit (smoke)

    Declension

    Declension of tuit (second declension)
    bare forms
    singular plural
    nominative tuit tuiteanna
    vocative a thuit a thuiteanna
    genitive tuite tuiteanna
    dative tuit tuiteanna
    forms with the definite article
    singular plural
    nominative an tuit na tuiteanna
    genitive na tuite na dtuiteanna
    dative leis an tuit
    don tuit
    leis na tuiteanna

    Verb

    tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)

    1. alternative form of tit (fall)

    Conjugation

    Mutation

    Mutated forms of tuit
    radical lenition eclipsis
    tuit thuit dtuit

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    References

    Old French

    Adjective

    tuit m

    1. nominative singular of tot (all)

    Adverb

    tuit

    1. nominative singular of tot (all; completely)

    Old Irish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /tutʲ/

    Verb

    ·tuit

    1. third-person singular present indicative prototonic of do·tuit

    Verb

    tuit

    1. second-person singular present imperative of do·tuit

    Mutation

    Mutation of tuit
    radical lenition nasalization
    tuit thuit tuit
    pronounced with /d-/

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Old Occitan

    Alternative forms

    Adjective

    tuit

    1. all; every

    Scottish Gaelic

    Etymology

    From Old Irish do·tuit (to fall).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [t̪uʰtʲ], /t̪ʰuʰtʰʲ/

    Verb

    tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)

    1. fall
    2. happen, befall, chance
    3. stumble, slip
    4. subside
    5. sink
    6. set (as the sun)
    7. benight
    8. be seduced by
    9. fail
    10. damp

    Mutation

    Mutation of tuit
    radical lenition
    tuit thuit

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    References

    • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tuit”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
    • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 do-tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

    Spanish

    Etymology

      Borrowed from English tweet. Orthographically adapted by the Fundación del Español Urgente. Added to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española in 2015.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈtwit/ [ˈt̪wit̪]
      • Rhymes: -it
      • Syllabification: tuit

      Noun

      tuit m (plural tuits)

      1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)
        • 2019 February 6, Elvira Guillén, “Premios Oscar sin anfitrión”, in Teleradio América Noticias[5]:
          En diciembre, el comediante Kevin Hart declinó una oferta de la Academia para presentar los Oscar debido a una controversia que se desató por unos tuits homofóbicos de hace una década.
          In December, the comedian Kevin Hart declined an offer from the Academy to host the Oscars due to a controversy sparked by some homophobic tweets from a decade ago.

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