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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TIT'TER, v.i. To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint.
TIT'TER, n. A restrained laugh.
1. A weed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a nervous restrained laugh v
1: laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom" [syn: giggle, titter]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Etymology: imitative Date: circa 1619 to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner ; giggle, snicker • titter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. laugh in a furtive or restrained way; giggle. --n. a furtive or restrained laugh. Derivatives: titterer n. titteringly adv. Etymology: imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Titter Tit"ter, v. i. To seesaw. See Teeter.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Titter Tit"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tittering.] [Probably of imitative origin.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Titter Tit"ter, n. A restrained laugh. ``There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance.'' --Coleridge.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(titters, tittering, tittered) If someone titters, they give a short nervous laugh, especially when they are embarrassed about something. Mention sex therapy and most people will titter in embarrassment. = snigger VERB: V • Titter is also a noun. Mollie gave an uneasy little titter. N-COUNT • tittering There was nervous tittering in the studio audience.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. Laugh (under restraint), snicker, giggle, chuckle. 2. Teeter, see-saw.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To suppress a laugh.

Moby Thesaurus

Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, sniggle, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, twitter, yuck, yuk-yuk