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Titter vs Tilter - What's the difference?

titter | tilter |

As nouns the difference between titter and tilter

is that titter is a nervous or repressed giggle while tilter is one who tilts, or jousts.

As a verb titter

is to laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.

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.
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    • 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

    tilter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who tilts, or jousts.
  • One who fights.
  • One who operates a tilt hammer.

    • Anagrams

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