Bittered vs Tittered - What's the difference?
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(bitter)
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
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*: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.
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*:It was at the end of February,.
Hateful or hostile.
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*(Bible), (w) iii. 19
*:Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Cynical and resentful.
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(usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
* 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
(nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
(titter)
A nervous or repressed giggle.
* Coleridge
(slang, vulgar, chiefly, in the plural) A woman's breast.
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To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.
* Longfellow
(obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.
As verbs the difference between bittered and tittered
is that bittered is (bitter) while tittered is (titter).bittered
English
Verb
(head)bitter
English
Adjective
(en-adj)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 swallowSee also
* bitter endAntonyms
* (cynical and resentful) optimisticSynonyms
* (cynical and resentful) jadedNoun
(en noun)- Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
- "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .
Derived terms
* brought up to a bittertittered
English
Verb
(head)titter
English
Noun
(en noun)- There was a titter of delight on his countenance.
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- “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.
Verb
- A group of tittering pages ran before.