Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Tit

A horse.

They scorned the coach, they scorned the rails,
Two spanking tits with streaming tails.

The End of All Things.

“What spurres need now for an untamed titt.”

Barnefield: Affectionate Shepherd (1594).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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