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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To laugh in a restrained, nervous way; giggle.
  2. n. A nervous giggle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To move back and forth; sway; waver.
  2. To teeter; seesaw.
  3. To tremble.
  4. To laugh in a restrained or nervous manner, as from suppressed mirth, pleasure, or embarrassment; giggle; snicker.
  5. n. A restrained or nervous laugh; a giggle; a snicker. There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree.
  6. n. A weed, probably the hairy vetch. See tine.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A nervous or repressed giggle.
  2. v. To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.
  3. v. obsolete To teeter; to seesaw.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.
  2. n. A restrained laugh.
  3. v. To seesaw. See teeter.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. laugh nervously
  2. n. a nervous restrained laugh

Etymologies

  1. Probably imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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