titter

[Tit·ter]

A titter is an awkward laugh at something that you shouldn’t be laughing at, like during dinner when Uncle Marvin makes a joke about your mother’s new hairstyle. If you try to hide your laugh, it’s probably a titter.

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To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.

Noun
a nervous restrained laugh

Verb
laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom"


v. t.
To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.

n.
A restrained laugh.

v. i.
To seesaw. See Teeter.


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.

Titter

Tit"ter, n. A restrained laugh. "There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance." Coleridge.

Titter

Tit"ter, v. i. To seesaw. See Teeter.

To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.

A restrained laugh.

To seesaw. See Teeter.

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