titter
IPA: tˈɪtɝ
noun
- A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
verb
- To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
- (obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.
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Examples of "titter" in Sentences
- Why are you tittering
- Birds make the schoolboys titter.
- Children like to titter and laugh.
- The kids tittered behind the wall.
- She titters at him for making a mistake.
- This article is just an excuse for a titter.
- Jerry mimes this last gesture and the mouse titters.
- Anyone with the slighest titter of wit would see this.
- What possesses you people to titter about this garbage
- Smiling and tittering are two different types of laughing.
- "This came in the morning post," he ventured apologetically and with the hint of a titter.
- Her standing out in the room was the signal for a convulsed titter from the other prisoners.
- Instead of manic tears flowing down their cheeks, each little titter was weighed and savored; good God, she said one night
- It would seem to be a born of the same zeitgeist that brought us Avenue Q; our desire to titter at the incongruity of naughty and innocent.
- I so remember that product, and how the name tanked it when the AIDS crisis hit … and how the product made some kids in high school titter. o_O
- It was such a welcome release of tension that both of them started to titter, which succeeded in drawing curious looks at the pair of laughing loonys.
- Suddenly curious noise, that I'm told is known as a titter, interrupted me, and, before I had quite finished, there was a boisterous roar of laughter. "
- Or rather, she read the first two pages, gave the kind of titter that frightens dogs and small children, then announced with finality, Well, you have some good lines here.
- "Prefer chaney to cricket?" asked Urquhart's uncle, with his agreeable laugh that was too attractive to be described as a titter, a name that its high, light quality might have suggested.
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