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titter | titteringly |

As a noun titter

is a nervous or repressed giggle.

As a verb titter

is to laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.

As an adverb titteringly is

with titters.

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

    titteringly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With titters.
    • The dirty joke was passed titteringly around the room.