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English Dictionary: titter by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
titter
n
  1. a nervous restrained laugh
v
  1. laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom"
    Synonym(s): giggle, titter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titter \Tit"ter\, n.
      A restrained laugh. [bd]There was a titter of . . . delight
      on his countenance.[b8] --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titter \Tit"ter\, v. i.
      To seesaw. See {Teeter}.
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