teat
noun/tiːt/
/tiːt/
- (British English) (North American English nipple)the rubber part at the end of a baby’s bottle that the baby sucks on with its lips and tongue in order to get milk, etc. from the bottle
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- one of the parts of a female animal’s body that the young animals drink milk fromTopics Animalsc2
Word OriginMiddle English (superseding earlier tit ‘woman's breast or nipple’): from Old French tete, probably of Germanic origin.
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