Thesaurus: titter
To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.
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Definitions
- 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.
- n. a nervous restrained laugh
- v. laugh nervously
- 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. A restrained laugh. "There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance." Coleridge. To seesaw. See Teeter.
- To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upperteeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.A group of tittering pages ran before. Longfellow.
- n:28/v:72 n. a nervous restrained laugh