titter Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a nervous restrained laugh
  2. verb laugh nervously
    giggle.
    • The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom

WordNet

Tit"ter transitive verb
Etymology
Probably of imitative origin.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tittered ; present participle & verbal noun Tittering
Definitions
  1. 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.
Tit"ter noun
Definitions
  1. A restrained laugh. "There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance." Coleridge.
Tit"ter intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To seesaw. See Teeter.

Webster 1913