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"ref": "1976, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1986, The Spectator - Volume 257",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2005, Sandra Kring, Carry Me Home, page 41",
"text": "Jimmy gives me a hug, and I bury my face right on his shoulder and cry like a titsy baby.",
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"ref": "2011, Jonathan Croall, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1977, Cornell Review - Issues 1-4, page 102",
"text": "Doodles sits under twenty-five watts and quite a titsy calendar in the storefront \"Arizona Taxi Service.\"",
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"ref": "2000, Wendy Holden, Simply Divine, page 8",
"text": "\"Well, you should know,\" Nick sneered. \"That's your department, all that frothy, titsy, celebrity stuff.",
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"ref": "2018 July 30, Hannah Vickers, “Upfest: Women challenging the male-dominated graffiti scene”, in The Bristol Cable",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1973, Robert Simpson, April's there, page 53",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1987, Stephen King, It: 2, page 106",
"text": "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.\"",
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"ref": "2007, Tawni O'Dell, Sister Mine: A Novel, page 281",
"text": "He said it was because the world was full of uptight, holier-than-thou Bible-thumpers and titsy feminists.",
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},
{
"ref": "1986, The Spectator - Volume 257",
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},
{
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"text": "Jimmy gives me a hug, and I bury my face right on his shoulder and cry like a titsy baby.",
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},
{
"ref": "2011, Jonathan Croall, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "Doodles sits under twenty-five watts and quite a titsy calendar in the storefront \"Arizona Taxi Service.\"",
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},
{
"ref": "2000, Wendy Holden, Simply Divine, page 8",
"text": "\"Well, you should know,\" Nick sneered. \"That's your department, all that frothy, titsy, celebrity stuff.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 July 30, Hannah Vickers, “Upfest: Women challenging the male-dominated graffiti scene”, in The Bristol Cable",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Having large breasts or images of large-breasted women."
],
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"ref": "1973, Robert Simpson, April's there, page 53",
"text": "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.",
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},
{
"ref": "1987, Stephen King, It: 2, page 106",
"text": "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.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Tawni O'Dell, Sister Mine: A Novel, page 281",
"text": "He said it was because the world was full of uptight, holier-than-thou Bible-thumpers and titsy feminists.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Female analog to ballsy; audacious; gutsy."
],
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