titsy

English

Etymology 1

Probably from the rhyme with itsy and bitsy.

Adjective

titsy (comparative more titsy, superlative most titsy)

1. Very small; teensy.
   • 1976, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives:

     The Labour Government in its 3 years did not come up with a formula like this, and so I would have expected a little bit—just a teeny, witsy, titsy bit—of praise from the Maori members over there.

   • 1986, The Spectator - Volume 257:

     Then I went for a ride on the back of a motor bicycle and after that I went out on the sea in a titsy little boat to look in a lobster pot.

   • 2005, Sandra Kring, Carry Me Home, page 41:

     Jimmy gives me a hug, and I bury my face right on his shoulder and cry like a titsy baby.

   • 2011, Jonathan Croall, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star, →ISBN:

     There was much talk of Rattigan's new TV play Heart to Heart, and his quarrels with his lover Michael Franklin – 'eight-page letters of vilest Bosie recriminations read out for our entertainment -a titsy bit boring, if you ask me,' Gielgud reported.

Etymology 2

tits +‎ -y

Adjective

titsy (comparative more titsy, superlative most titsy)

1. Having large breasts or images of large-breasted women.
   • 1977, Cornell Review - Issues 1-4, page 102:

     Doodles sits under twenty-five watts and quite a titsy calendar in the storefront "Arizona Taxi Service."

   • 2000, Wendy Holden, Simply Divine, →ISBN, page 8:

     "Well, you should know," Nick sneered. "That's your department, all that frothy, titsy, celebrity stuff.

   • 2018 July 30, Hannah Vickers, “Upfest: Women challenging the male-dominated graffiti scene”, in The Bristol Cable:

     I think it’s definitely becoming less laddy and less tolerant of people just painting really titsy women, which I think the graffiti world has been doing a bit too much of for a bit too long.

2. Female analog to ballsy; audacious; gutsy.
   • 1973, Robert Simpson, April's there, page 53:

     If she failed to appear or otherwise contact me I'd leave Tara's Halls, and forget I ever knew such a fantastic, marvelous, randy, horny, sexy, titsy, gutsy, buttocksy, lipsy, bitchy, well; anyhow.

   • 1987, Stephen King, It: 2, page 106:

     Two of his friends had come; the only friend of hers to attend had been Kay McCall, whom Tom called "that titsy women's-lib bitch."

   • 2007, Tawni O'Dell, Sister Mine: A Novel, page 281:

     He said it was because the world was full of uptight, holier-than-thou Bible-thumpers and titsy feminists.