[f. TITTER v.1 + -ING1.] The action of TITTER v.1; giggling.

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1657.  Thornley, trans. Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe, 129. The winking, nodding, laughing and tittering that was between them.

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1759.  Dilworth, Pope, 124. This story … was the cause of so much tittering, wherever her ladyship went.

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1833.  D. MacMillan, in Hughes, Mem., iii. (1882), 50. The everlasting tittering and smirking is loathsome.

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