titters

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  1. intransitive verb To laugh in a restrained, nervous way; giggle.
  2. noun A nervous giggle.

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  • They're working for guffaws, not titters, and Friday's house rewarded them amply with the former.
  • From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger In the same moment with his advent, he stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fidčle, on the point of starting for New Orleans. —  The Confidence-Man
  • On both sides of the deck subdued titters were heard.--"That'll do. —  The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle
  • Don't you remember that we used to clear some of those tables mighty quickly, of the chips and the bottles There were titters, and some one shouted: "You said it And then, don't you remember, that some ten years ago they turned the old man off, with a pension--so-called--of half his salary. —  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
  • And, save for the titters that greeted my encounters with the bats, they were amazingly quiet as they waited for me to sing It was just about ten minutes before eleven when I began to sing, and the concert wasn't over until after midnight. —  A Minstrel in France
 

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