TITTER

titter

(noun) a nervous restrained laugh

giggle, titter

(verb) laugh nervously; “The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

titter (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.

(obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.

Synonyms

• snicker; see also laugh

Noun

titter (plural titters)

A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.

Etymology 2

Noun

titter (plural titters)

(slang, vulgar, chiefly, in the plural) A woman's breast.

Synonyms

• (a woman's breast): See also breasts.

Source: Wiktionary

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Tit"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tittering.] Etym: [Probably of imitative origin.]

Definition: To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle. A group of tittering pages ran before. Longfellow.

Tit"ter, n.

Definition: A restrained laugh. "There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance." Coleridge.

Tit"ter, v. i.

Definition: To seesaw. See Teeter.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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