sugar tit

noun

sugar tit

noun
1

A baby's pacifier consisting of a spoonful of sugar or honey in a small patch of cloth which is then twisted to form a bulb and secured with twine etc.

  • “You married? You ain’t hardly old enough to be weaned. Ah betcha you still craves sugar-tits, doncher?”1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 4, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 48:

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