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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a nervous restrained laugh;


VERB (1)

1. laugh nervously;
- Example: "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom"
[syn: giggle, titter]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] A group of tittering pages ran before. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Titter \Tit"ter\, n. A restrained laugh. "There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance." --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Titter \Tit"ter\, v. i. To seesaw. See Teeter. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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