[
UK
/tˈɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈtɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɪtɝ/ ]
VERB
-
laugh nervously
The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom
NOUN
- a nervous restrained laugh
How To Use titter In A Sentence
- My children bring me great joy (especially as the little ones vacillate between squirming with curiosity and tittering with barely kept secrets in anticipation of Christmas).
- However, Frank's furtive visits to strange bars frequented by men in ascots and Cathy's friendship with Raymond, a noble black gardener, set the neighbourhood gossips tittering.
- Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded.
- Women's bell-like tittering and men's droning passiveness filled the void my nervousness made.
- Bryan tittered nervously, and the two men sat in a very uncomfortable hot silence.
- I did, however, see them tittering, shrieking, guffawing and hooting with laughter at the madcap slapstick that has become the trademark of these two spiky-haired, South Yorkshire clowns.
- One possible reaction was laughter, although a very different laughter to the embarrassed titters of a modern school group when sex-ed comes around.
- There was admiring applause at the end but little more than titters throughout a show misguidedly billed as ‘hilariously funny’.
- A titter of giggles issued from everyone as Amy reddened.
- The rest of the class tittered as I told him in my sternest teacher voice that we would be having a class bathroom break once everyone was quiet and in his seat.