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Tittering

Titter \Tit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tittering.] [Probably of imitative origin.] To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.

A group of tittering pages ran before.
--Longfellow.

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tittering

n. The act of one who titters. vb. (present participle of titter English)

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tittering

adj. being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter [syn: thoriated]

Usage examples of "tittering".

From some of the tumble-down buildings came cacklings and titterings as the maimed caroused with the crippled and the degenerate and corrupted coupled with their crones.

I want to talk to you without the constant titterings and hushed whisperings of that gaggle of noble-born geese you have collected about you.

There were titterings, squeals of demoniac mirth, long shuddering howls, and once the unmistakable squalling laughter of a hyena ended awfully in human words of shrieking blasphemy.