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titter
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tit·ter

intransitive verb \ˈti-tər\

Definition of TITTER

: to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle, snicker
— titter noun

Examples of TITTER

  1. Some people in the audience tittered nervously during an awkward pause in the speech.
  2. <even as students in the sex ed class continued to titter, the lecturer plowed ahead>

Origin of TITTER

imitative
First Known Use: circa 1619

Related to TITTER

Synonyms
break up, cackle, chortle, chuckle, crack up, giggle, hee-haw, roar, scream, snicker, laugh, twitter

Rhymes with TITTER

bitter, chitter, critter, fitter, flitter, fritter, glitter, hitter, jitter, knitter, litter, quitter, quittor, sitter, skitter, slitter, spitter, twitter

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