Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
titter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter
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Examples
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The misses, in tittering, ran away from the learned lady; the beaux contemptuously sneering, rejoiced she was too ugly to take in any poor fellow to marry her.
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Hey, use the word "tittering" just to get a charge of sexism thrown in there too!
Why aren't we ashamed of fawning over Obama? Ann Althouse 2007
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Grins overspread the grotesque features of the audience, and there was a sound of tittering.
Chapter 2 2010
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The tittering, progressive class will giggle at his wit.
Paul McCartney thinks President Bush doesn’t know what a library is*. | RedState 2010
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"I am happy to use my celebrity to draw attention to this important, complicated issue and I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-Span 1," Colbert snarked, setting off tittering in the media-infested room.
Mr. Colbert Goes to Washington Lisa de Moraes 2010
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Society insiders are already tittering about the new dynamic, and the new parlor game at the finest dinner parties in Georgetown is guessing how they can avoid breaking any ethical rules during pillow talk.
JayClai? D.C.'s New Power Duo And The Ethics Of Pillow Talk Marcus Baram 2011
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April 14th, 2010 at 10: 02 pm tittering — the laughter of adolescents who have snuck into the girlie show …
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Society insiders are already tittering about the new dynamic, and the new parlor game at the finest dinner parties in Georgetown is guessing how they can avoid breaking any ethical rules during pillow talk.
JayClai? D.C.'s New Power Duo And The Ethics Of Pillow Talk Marcus Baram 2011
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Here are the convicts plotting their plots, flooding their cells, doing their chin-ups, chiseling away at their shivs and shanks; here is the dead-eyed felon, and here the tittering psychopath.
Prison Porn 2010
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Society insiders are already tittering about the new dynamic, and the new parlor game at the finest dinner parties in Georgetown is guessing how they can avoid breaking any ethical rules during pillow talk.
JayClai? D.C.'s New Power Duo And The Ethics Of Pillow Talk Marcus Baram 2011
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