titter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɪtə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈtɪtɚ/|[ˈtɪɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
    — April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.
  2. A woman's breast. in-plural,slang,vulgar
    — Flesh Gordon 2 - I remember that this one was chock full of big titters. Many of them looked like the natural variety, as well.
  3. A girl or young woman. obsolete,slang
    — David […] was a man peculiarly after God's own heart, had plenty of wives, and, when he got old and shaky, and there were doubts about his virility, the prophet of the Lord told him to go and get a young "titter" — a capable young woman — to test him, and see if the fires of his passion had gone out, and to keep him warm if they had. There is the Bible for you.
动词 v.
  1. To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
    — 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily A group of tittering pages ran before.
  2. To teeter; to seesaw. obsolete

词形变化

titters present,singular,third-person tittering participle,present tittered participle,past tittered past titters plural titters plural

词汇关系

近义词
snicker
衍生词
teeter titteration titterer titteringly tittersome untittering

词源

词源 1
First attested in the 1610s. Probably from Middle English *titeren, *titren (attested in Middle English titering (“hesitation, vacillation”)), probably a frequentative of Middle English titten (“to waver”), related to Old Norse titra (“to shake, shiver, quiver”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to snicker”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English tit
English -er
English titter
From tit + -er.
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