Definition of "tittering" [tittering]

• Present participle of titter. (verb)

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• "The misses, in tittering, ran away from the learned lady; the beaux contemptuously sneering, rejoiced she was too ugly to take in any poor fellow to marry her."
• "Hey, use the word "tittering" just to get a charge of sexism thrown in there too!"
• "Here are the convicts plotting their plots, flooding their cells, doing their chin-ups, chiseling away at their shivs and shanks; here is the dead-eyed felon, and here the tittering psychopath."