Word Meanings - TITTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TITTER)

• Cachinnation
• Grin
• chuckle
• giggle
• snigger
• titter
• cackle
• Giggle
• grin

Related words: (words related to TITTER)

• GIGGLE
  To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake. (more info) Etym:
• SNIGGER
  See THACKERAY
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• CHUCKLEHEAD
  A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. Knowles.
• TITTEREL
  The whimbrel.
• CACKLE
  gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
• CACHINNATION
  Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott. (more info) aloud, cf Gr.
• CACKLER
  1. A fowl that cackles. 2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
• GIGGLER
  One who giggles or titters.
• TITTER
  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. (more info) Etym:
• CHUCKLEHEADED
  Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. Smart.
• CHUCKLE
  Etym: 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. Dryden. 2. To fondle; to cocker. Dryden.