titter

Plural: titters

Noun

a nervous restrained laugh
A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
A woman's breast.

Verb

Verb Forms: tittered, tittering, titters

To utter a restrained, nervous giggle or laugh.
laugh nervously
To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
To teeter; to seesaw.

Examples

A few opponents would TITTER nervously when he pulled out the dictionary to challenge a word.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

giggle, laugh, snicker

Scrabble Score: 6

titter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
titter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
titter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

titter: valid Words With Friends Word