What does "titter" mean?
Titter: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.A restrained laugh. "There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance." Coleridge.
- 3.To seesaw. See Teeter.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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