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TITTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tittering mean? 

TITTERING (adjective)
  The adjective TITTERING has 1 sense:

1. being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughterplay

  Familiarity information: TITTERING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TITTERING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

thoriated; tittering

Participle:

titter (laugh nervously)


 Context examples 


Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible: John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement; but as I instantly turned against him, roused by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist, and ran from me tittering execrations, and vowing I had burst his nose.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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