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Tittered vs Wittered - What's the difference?

tittered | wittered |

As verbs the difference between tittered and wittered

is that tittered is past tense of titter while wittered is past tense of witter.

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.
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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

    wittered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (witter)

    • witter

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) witter, witer, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) witteren, witeren, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
  • to speak at length on a trivial subject.
    • She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.
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