Witter vs Titter - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between witter and titter

is that witter is to make sure, inform, or declare while titter is to laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.

is knowing, certain, sure, wis.

a nervous or repressed giggle.

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

(en adjective)

(obsolete, or, dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.

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

(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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(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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“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.

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

To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.

* Longfellow

A group of tittering pages ran before.

(obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.

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