Obs. exc. dial. Editors suggest, in quot. c. 1400, ‘Dear, loved.’ In mod. dial. Fond: cf. TID a., TIT-BIT.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 7106. Þen vnhappely hys hest he hastid to do, Þat angart hym after angardly sore, Turnyt hym to tene & all the tit Rewme.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v., When a person is particularly attentive to, or indulgent to another, it is said, ‘He is very tit of her.’
