What (who) is titch - definition
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Titch (disambiguation)
titch
A small amount - more than a hair, less than a tad.
Carrie, you're too far away from Pete - move your chair a titch to the left.
Carrie, you're too far away from Pete - move your chair a titch to the left.
titch
(also tich)
¦ noun Brit. informal a small person.
Derivatives
titchy adjective
Origin
1930s: from Little Tich, stage name of Harry Relph, an English music-hall comedian of small stature, given the nickname because he resembled Arthur Orton, the unsuccessful claimant to the valuable Tichborne estate.
Little Tich
![Music Hall War]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1907 Music hall strike poster.jpg?width=200 "Music Hall War]]''")
![Little Tich's final residence in Shirehall Park, [[Hendon]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/93 Shirehall Park, Hendon.jpg?width=200 "Little Tich's final residence in Shirehall Park, [[Hendon]]")
![The [[Empire, Leicester Square]], a popular music hall but one at which Little Tich scored minimal success in 1889](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Empire Theatre (1911).jpg?width=200 "The [[Empire, Leicester Square]], a popular music hall but one at which Little Tich scored minimal success in 1889")
![George Dance]] who wrote ''Lord Tom Noddy'', and partnered Little Tich in his theatre company](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George Dance (ca 1900).jpg?width=200 "George Dance]] who wrote ''Lord Tom Noddy'', and partnered Little Tich in his theatre company")
![Clockwise from top left: [[Augustus Harris]], [[Dan Leno]], [[Marie Lloyd]] and [[Herbert Campbell]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harris-Leno-Lloyd-Campbell.jpg?width=200 "Clockwise from top left: [[Augustus Harris]], [[Dan Leno]], [[Marie Lloyd]] and [[Herbert Campbell]]")
![Little Tich in [[blackface]] during a provincial performance in England in the 1880s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Little Tich blackface.jpg?width=200 "Little Tich in [[blackface]] during a provincial performance in England in the 1880s")
![The French actress [[Mistinguett]], who appeared with Little Tich towards the end of his career](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mistinguett in 1912.jpg?width=200 "The French actress [[Mistinguett]], who appeared with Little Tich towards the end of his career")
![[[Tony Pastor]], who engaged Little Tich for his first American tour in 1887](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony Pastor 1894.jpg?width=200 "[[Tony Pastor]], who engaged Little Tich for his first American tour in 1887")
BRITISH MUSIC HALL COMEDIAN
Harry Relph; Little Titch
Harry Relph (21 July 186710 February 1928),Russell, Dave."Relph, Harry (1867–1928)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, January 2011.
Wikipedia
Titch
Titch can refer to the following:
As a nickname:
- Barclay Bailes (1883–1955), Australian rules footballer
- Arthur Edwards (footballer, born 1915) (1915–2002), Australian rules footballer
- William Horne (footballer) (1885–1930), English goalkeeper for Plymouth Argyle
- Titch Moore (born 1976), South African golfer
- Michael Phelan (hurler) (born 1967), Irish former hurler
Other uses:
- Titch (TV series), a 1990s television series shown on CITV
- Titch, a character in the UK comic strip Ball Boy (Beano)
- Crazy Titch, English grime MC
- Taylor Titch, a 1960s British homebuilt aircraft design
Examples of use of titch
1. At this time, too, Titch, a small ewe with a large brain, will arrive.
2. The website also offered video downloads of two cartoon mascots – Postie and Titch – to promote Coke products.
3. "More power to the entrepreneurs who are doing this," said Steven Titch, a telecommunications expert at the Heartland Institute in Chicago.
4. He has spent years shrinking away from the limelight and at school his nickname was ‘titch‘ because he was so tiny.
5. Previously at school, the Ukrainian was one of the smallest boys in his class and he used to be known to fellow pupils as ‘titch‘. But his condition known as acromegalic gigantism, saw him grow so fast that suit trousers which once fitted him perfectly were 12 inches too short within two years.