Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Titter \Tit"ter\, v. i.
To seesaw. See {Teeter}.
Titter \Tit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tittered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Tittering}.] [Probably of imitative origin.]
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.
Titter \Tit"ter\, n.
A restrained laugh. ``There was a titter of . . . delight on
his countenance.'' --Coleridge.
Source : WordNet®
titter
n : a nervous restrained laugh
v : laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came
into the classroom" [syn: {giggle}]