t 1 i 1 t 1 m 3 o 1 u 1 s 1 e 1
8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun small insectivorous birds
originFrom Middle English titmose, compound of tit (“small bird”) and mose, from Old English māse (“titmouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (compare Dutch mees, German Meise, Old Norse meisingr, French mésange), from *maisaz (“tiny, puny”) (compare Norwegian meis (“skinny weakling”)). Spelling as well as the plural form in imitation of the otherwise unrelated mouse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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