Hypertext Webster Gateway: "titter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Titter \Tit"ter\, v. i.
To seesaw. See {Teeter}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Titter \Tit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tittered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Tittering}.] [Probably of imitative origin.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Titter \Tit"ter\, n.
A restrained laugh. ``There was a titter of . . . delight on
his countenance.'' --Coleridge.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
titter
n : a nervous restrained laugh
v : laugh nervously [syn: {giggle}]
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