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third-person singular simple present titters, present participle tittering, simple past and past participle tittered
To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement. quotations examples
A group of tittering pages ran before.
1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily
"Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle. "Why dost thou titter?"
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 70
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 surrounding listeners to titter with delight.
1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, page 363
(obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.
plural titters
A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle. quotations examples
There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.
April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
(slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. quotations
Flesh Gordon 2 - I remember that this one was chock full of big titters. Many of them looked like the natural variety, as well.
1995 February 21, Agent_69 [username], “big breast video list”, in alt.sex.breast (Usenet)
there was an old lady from raleighwho was so doggone nasty by gollyjust squeezin her tittersyou'd pick up some crittersand bathe twice in one month for your folly
1999 March 13, MrMalo [username], “Re: State Capitals”, in alt.jokes.limericks (Usenet)
“The poor dear, even her titters are weighted down with melancholy,” Pearle said to Mable.“I don't know what you're talking about. Her titters look perky enough to me,” Mable replied.
2013, Dorothy St. James, Oak and Dagger, Berkley Prime Crime