titter
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Động từ
verb- 1.
To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily A group of tittering pages ran before.
- 2.
(obsolete)To teeter; to seesaw.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.
- 2.
(in plural, slang, vulgar)(slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- 3.
(obsolete, slang)A girl or young woman.
David […] was a man peculiarly after God's own heart, had plenty of wives, and, when he got old and shaky, and there were doubts about his virility, the prophet of the Lord told him to go and get a young "titter" — a capable young woman — to test him, and see if the fires of his passion had gone out, and to keep him warm if they had. There is the Bible for you.
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First attested in the 1610s. Probably from Middle English *titeren, *titren (attested in titering), probably a frequentative of Middle English titten (to waver), ultimately of origin. Related to titra (if not borrowed from it), dialectal tittra. Compare also.