titter

• “Her standing out in the room was the signal for a convulsed titter from the other prisoners.”

  Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

• “Prefer chaney to cricket?" asked Urquhart's uncle, with his agreeable laugh that was too attractive to be described as a titter, a name that its high, light quality might have suggested.”

  The Lee Shore

• “Or rather, she read the first two pages, gave the kind of titter that frightens dogs and small children, then announced with finality, Well, you have some good lines here.”

  Author! Author! » 2008 » March

• “Suddenly curious noise, that I'm told is known as a titter, interrupted me, and, before I had quite finished, there was a boisterous roar of laughter. ”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893

• “This came in the morning post," he ventured apologetically and with the hint of a titter.”

  Winged Blackmail

• “Instead of manic tears flowing down their cheeks, each little titter was weighed and savored; good God, she said one night”

  Fictionaut: The Last Beach Heather

• “I so remember that product, and how the name tanked it when the AIDS crisis hit … and how the product made some kids in high school titter. o_O”

  Getting Skinny With Ayds - The Retroist

• “It was such a welcome release of tension that both of them started to titter, which succeeded in drawing curious looks at the pair of laughing loonys.”

  Simon & Schuster: Western Man

• “It would seem to be a born of the same zeitgeist that brought us Avenue Q; our desire to titter at the incongruity of naughty and innocent.”

  The Huffington Post: Erika Milvy: Oh, Naughty Muppets. What Would Jim Henson Think of You Now?W

• “The little titter of laughter faded quickly as members of the audience realized they were going to comply -- they wanted to comply -- with Fred's suggestion.”

  The Huffington Post: Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: HuffPost Religion Round-Up, June 27-July 4

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