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Bittered vs Tittered - What's the difference?

bittered | tittered |

As verbs the difference between bittered and tittered

is that bittered is (bitter) while tittered is (titter).

bittered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bitter)

    • bitter

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter , he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • Harsh, piercing or stinging.
  • :
  • *1999 , (Neil Gaiman), Stardust , p.31 (Perennial paperback edition)
  • *:It was at the end of February,.
  • Hateful or hostile.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) iii. 19
  • *:Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Cynical and resentful.
  • :

    • Usage notes

    * The one-word comparative form (bitterer) and superlative form (bitterest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).

    Derived terms

    * bitter pill to swallow

    See also

    * bitter end

    Antonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) optimistic

    Synonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) jaded

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
  • * 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
    • Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
    "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .
  • A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
  • (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.

    • Derived terms

    * brought up to a bitter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make bitter.
    • (Wolcott)
    ----

    tittered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (titter)

    • titter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A nervous or repressed giggle.
  • * Coleridge
    • There was a titter of delight on his countenance.
  • (slang, vulgar, chiefly, in the plural) A woman's breast.
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  • * 2013 , Dorothy St. James, Oak and Dagger , Berkley Prime Crime (2013), ISBN 9781101619797, unnumbered page:
    • “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.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, a woman's breast) See also .

    Verb

  • To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.
  • * Longfellow
    • A group of tittering pages ran before.
  • (obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.

    • Synonyms

    * See also