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titter
UK /ˈtɪtə(ɹ)/ US /ˈtɪtɚ/
verb 2noun 2
Collocations
3VERB + TITTER
gave
TITTER + NOUN
toupee
PREP.
around, on
Definitions
verb
1
To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily A group of tittering pages ran before.
"Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle. "Why dost thou titter?"
2
To teeter; to seesaw.
noun
1
A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.
noun
1
A woman's breast.
Flesh Gordon 2 - I remember that this one was chock full of big titters. Many of them looked like the natural variety, as well.
there was an old lady from raleigh who was so doggone nasty by golly just squeezin her titters you'd pick up some critters and bathe twice in one month for your folly
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verb — laugh nervously
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1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily A group of tittering pages ran before.
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"Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle. "Why dost thou titter?"
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Nor had the joke been a vulgar one: it was the kind of elegant pleasantry that the minister of foreign affairs might have told the crown prince at a garden party a generation ago, causing the surround
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April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.
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Flesh Gordon 2 - I remember that this one was chock full of big titters. Many of them looked like the natural variety, as well.
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there was an old lady from raleigh who was so doggone nasty by golly just squeezin her titters you'd pick up some critters and bathe twice in one month for your folly
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