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Definition: Tittering |
TitteringAdjective1. Being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tittering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: TitteringSynonym: thoriated (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tittering |
| English words defined with "tittering": Te-hee. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tittering": Dance. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tittering": Titter. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Chimp; chimpanzee; titter; tittering; laughing; laugh. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious. |
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| "Tittering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Tittering" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 83.33% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tittering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | kichernd (chuckling, giggling, snickering, sniggering), gekicher (cackle, cackling, giggle, giggling, snickering, snigger, sniggering, titter). (various references) | |
Italian | ridacchiante (giggling, snickering). (various references) | |
Manx | smooirey (smirk; sniggering, smirking, snigger, titter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itteringtay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Tittering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: titering, titterings, tuttering, twttering, wittering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-r-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: gittern, igniter, nitrite, nittier, retting, tiering. | |
-3 letters: engirt, gittin, ignite, retint, tieing, tinier, tinter, tiring, titter, tittie. | |
-4 letters: genii, inert, inter, iring, niter, nitre, reign, renig, tiger, tinge, titer, titre, trine, trite. | |
-5 letters: gent, gien, girn, girt, grin, grit, inti, nett, nite, rein, rent, ring, rite, tent, tern, tier, tine, ting, tint, tire, titi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-r-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: twittering. | |
+2 letters: restituting. | |
+3 letters: intercutting, intermitting, reoutfitting, retrofitting. | |
+4 letters: anticigarette, antilittering, interdigitate, interknitting, intertwisting, outglittering, pretermitting, reattributing, reinstituting. | |
+5 letters: integrationist, interdigitated, interdigitates, reconstituting, retransmitting, teratogenicity. | |
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