sugar tit

English

Noun

sugar tit (plural sugar tits)

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.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 4, in Their Eyes Were Watching God‎^[1], University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 48:

     “You married? You ain’t hardly old enough to be weaned. Ah betcha you still craves sugar-tits, doncher?”

Anagrams

• guittars