tomtit

[ tom-tit ]

/ ˈtɒmˌtɪt /

a titmouse.

any of various other small birds, as the wren.

Origin of tomtit

1700–10; Tom ( Thumb) + tit¹

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

Wood Magic |Richard Jefferies
I hear a bird away up on the hill—only a tomtit, but it has sat there calling in the same place two nights now.

Pan |Knut Hamsun
But the chaffinch and the tomtit stood below on the ground and gazed at the dead bird.

The Queen Bee and Other Nature Stories |Carl Ewald
Tinker hopped round him as nimbly as a tomtit or a jackdaw, and presently gave him another little taste of his steel.

Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks |Bracebridge Hemyng

I heard the maids talking about it to-day when I went to call on Cousin Tomtit in the palace garden.

Lulu's Library, Volume II |Louisa M. Alcott

tomtit

/ (ˈtɒmˌtɪt) /

British any of various tits, esp the bluetit