Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to titter
Participle: tittered
Gerund: tittering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | titter |
| you | titter |
| he;she;it | titters |
| we | titter |
| you | titter |
| they | titter |
Perfect
| I | have tittered |
| you | have tittered |
| he;she;it | has tittered |
| we | have tittered |
| you | have tittered |
| they | have tittered |
Past
| I | tittered |
| you | tittered |
| he;she;it | tittered |
| we | tittered |
| you | tittered |
| they | tittered |
Pluperfect
| I | had tittered |
| you | had tittered |
| he;she;it | had tittered |
| we | had tittered |
| you | had tittered |
| they | had tittered |
Future
| I | will titter |
| you | will titter |
| he;she;it | will titter |
| we | will titter |
| you | will titter |
| they | will titter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tittered |
| you | will have tittered |
| he;she;it | will have tittered |
| we | will have tittered |
| you | will have tittered |
| they | will have tittered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | titter |
| you | titter |
| he;she;it | titter |
| we | titter |
| you | titter |
| they | titter |
Perfect
| I | have tittered |
| you | have tittered |
| he;she;it | have tittered |
| we | have tittered |
| you | have tittered |
| they | have tittered |
Imperfect
| I | tittered |
| you | tittered |
| he;she;it | tittered |
| we | tittered |
| you | tittered |
| they | tittered |
Pluperfect
| I | had tittered |
| you | had tittered |
| he;she;it | had tittered |
| we | had tittered |
| you | had tittered |
| they | had tittered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would titter |
| you | would titter |
| he;she;it | would titter |
| we | would titter |
| you | would titter |
| they | would titter |
Perfect
| I | would have tittered |
| you | would have tittered |
| he;she;it | would have tittered |
| we | would have tittered |
| you | would have tittered |
| they | would have tittered |
Imperative
| you | titter |
| we | Let's titter |
| you | titter |
Verbs conjugated like 'titter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'titter'
bitter,
jitter,
litter,
pitter,
tatter,
tetter,
titer,
totter,
twitter,
witter,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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”). See: Swedish '
tittra'.
Verbs referencing "titter"
Luxembourgish
zidderen, Danish
sitre.
Sample Sentences
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1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily
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A group of tittering pages ran before.
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"Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle. "Why dost thou titter?" [1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 70:]
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Nor had the joke been a vulgar one: it was the kind of elegant pleasantry that the minister of foreign affairs might have told the crown prince at a garden party a generation ago, causing the surrounding listeners to titter with delight. [1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 363:]