ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING2.] That tittups; bouncing, cantering, prancing; transf., rollicking, lively; also, unsteady, rickety.

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1796.  Campaigns 1793–4, II. vii. 44. My pen glances off into titupping strains.

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1809.  Theo. Jones, Hist. Breckn., II. 542. The poem concludes in such galloping tittuping rhymes as almost compel the reader to forget the merits the author certainly possesses.

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1824.  Scott, St. Ronan’s, xiii. The ‘Dear me’s’ and ‘O laa’s’ of the titupping misses, and the oaths of the pantalooned or buckskinned beaux.

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1895.  Mrs. B. M. Croker, Village Tales (1896), 76. They kept up a steady tittuping canter, raising a cloud of dust.

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