tuit
English
Etymology
A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.
Noun
tuit (plural tuits)Category:English lemmas#TUITCategory:English nouns#TUITCategory:English countable nouns#TUITCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- (humorousCategory:English humorous terms#TUIT) Synonym of round tuit.
- 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>, "Tuit", message-ID <538pjq$nn1@orm.southern.co.nz>, rec.humor, Usenet :
- THIS IS A TUIT
- 2000 December 7, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.org>, "Tuit Update", message-ID <3a2ed57b.471201@news.earthlink.net>, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet :
- My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.
- 2002 Mat 25, Scott W. Harvey <fromrarp@scottharvey.com>, "1953 BEITMAN MANUAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD", message-ID <3cf2b4de.159435990@enews.newsguy.com>, rec.antiques.radio+phono, Usenet :
- 1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.
- 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>, "Tuit", message-ID <538pjq$nn1@orm.southern.co.nz>, rec.humor, Usenet :
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from SpanishCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Spanish#TUITCategory:Catalan terms derived from Spanish#TUIT tuit.
Pronunciation
Noun
tuit m (plural tuits)Category:Catalan lemmas#TUITCategory:Catalan nouns#TUITCategory:Catalan countable nouns#TUITCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- (social mediaCategory:ca:Social media#TUIT) tweet (Twitter post)
Derived terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tœy̯t/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#TUIT
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#TUITAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: tuit
- Rhymes: -œy̯tCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/œy̯t#TUITCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/œy̯t/1 syllable#TUIT
Etymology 1
From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#TUITCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#TUIT tute. Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Further origin unknown.
Noun
tuit f or m (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#TUITCategory:Dutch nouns#TUITCategory:Dutch nouns with f+m gender#TUITCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#TUITCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#TUITCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Dutch feminine nouns#TUITCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#TUITCategory:Dutch nouns with multiple genders#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: tuit
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
tuitCategory:Dutch non-lemma forms#TUITCategory:Dutch verb forms#TUITCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- inflection of tuiten:
Finnish
Verb
tuitCategory:Finnish non-lemma forms#TUITCategory:Finnish verb forms#TUITCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#TUITCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#TUIT tweed, from EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#TUIT tweed.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtuit/ [ˈt̪u.ɪt̪̚]Category:Indonesian 2-syllable words#TUITCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#TUIT
- Rhymes: -itCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/it#TUITCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/it/2 syllables#TUIT
- Syllabification: tu‧it
Noun
tuit (plural tuit-tuit)Category:Indonesian lemmas#TUITCategory:Indonesian nouns#TUITCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
Further reading
- “tuit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Irish
Noun
tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)Category:Irish lemmas#TUITCategory:Irish nouns#TUITCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Irish feminine nouns#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- alternative form of toit (“smoke”)
Declension
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Verb
tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)Category:Irish lemmas#TUITCategory:Irish verbs#TUITCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- alternative form of tit (“fall”)
Conjugation
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
Mutation
| 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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tuit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old French
Adjective
tuit mCategory:Old French non-lemma forms#TUITCategory:Old French adjective forms#TUITCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- nominative singular of tot (“all”)
Adverb
tuitCategory:Old French non-lemma forms#TUITCategory:Old French adverb forms#TUITCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- nominative singular of tot (“all; completely”)
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Verb
·tuitCategory:Old Irish non-lemma forms#TUITCategory:Old Irish verb forms#TUITCategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
Verb
tuitCategory:Old Irish non-lemma forms#TUITCategory:Old Irish verb forms#TUITCategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
Mutation
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
Adjective
tuitCategory:Old Occitan lemmas#TUITCategory:Old Occitan adjectives#TUITCategory:Old Occitan entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Category:Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#TUITCategory:Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)tewd-#TUITFrom Old IrishCategory:Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish#TUITCategory:Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish#TUIT do·tuit (“to fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t̪uʰtʲ], /t̪ʰuʰtʰʲ/Category:Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation#TUIT
Verb
tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)Category:Scottish Gaelic lemmas#TUITCategory:Scottish Gaelic verbs#TUITCategory:Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
Mutation
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “tuit”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 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 EnglishCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from English#TUITCategory:Spanish terms derived from English#TUIT 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]Category:Spanish 1-syllable words#TUITCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#TUIT
- Rhymes: -itCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/it#TUITCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/it/1 syllable#TUIT
- Syllabification: tuit
Noun
tuit m (plural tuits)Category:Spanish lemmas#TUITCategory:Spanish nouns#TUITCategory:Spanish countable nouns#TUITCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#TUITCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#TUITCategory:Pages with entries#TUITCategory:Pages with 11 entries#TUIT
- (social mediaCategory:es:Social media#TUIT) tweet (Twitter post)
- 2019 February 6, Elvira Guillén, “Premios Oscar sin anfitrión”, in Teleradio América Noticias:
- 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.Category:Spanish terms with quotations#TUIT
- 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.
Related terms
Further reading
- “tuit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
