ˈtitman local U.S.
[f. tit n.3]
The smallest pig, etc. of a litter; hence, a man who is stunted physically or mentally; a dwarf, a ‘croot’.
| 1849 Thoreau Week on Concord, Friday 401 We titmen are only able To catch the fragments from their table. 1854 ― Walden, Reading (1884) 117 We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper. |