titter

n. 嗤笑, 傻笑 vi. 吃吃地笑, 傻笑

发音

UK /ˈtɪtə(ɹ)/
AU
US /ˈtɪtɚ/
US /ˈtɪɾɚ/

词形变化

titters 复数 tittered tittering titters 三单 tittering 现在分词 tittered 过去式 tittered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.

    April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.

  2. 1.

    A woman's breast.

    俚语 粗俗
v.
  1. 1.

    To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.

    1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily A group of tittering pages ran before.

  2. 2.

    To teeter; to seesaw.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

laugh laughter
动词

同义词 1

giggle

上位词 1

laugh

词源

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”).

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