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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move in a lively, capering manner; prance.
  2. n. A lively, capering manner of moving or walking; a prance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To act or go in a gay, lively, or impatient manner; spring; prance; skip.
  2. n. A lively or gay movement or gait; a prancing or springing about; a canter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a caper
  2. v. intransitive To prance or frolic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an impatient horse; to caper; to prance; to frisk.
  2. n. The act of tittuping; lively, gay, or restless behavior or gait; a prance or caper.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

Etymologies

  1. Probably imitative. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps imitative of the sound of a horse's hooves. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The torrent of knocks roared louder, slightly failed upon the ear, made a crescendo, emulated Niagara, surpassed that very American effort of nature, wavered, faltered to Lodore, died away to a feeble tittup like water dropping from a tap to flagstones, rose again in a final spurt that would have made Southey open his dictionary for adjectives, and drained away to death.”

    The Prophet of Berkeley Square

  • “Now and again three donkeys would start, urged from behind, and slowly tittup their burdens along the pond’s margin.”

    The White Monkey

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  1. caper
  1. prance
  1. frisk

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  1. walk

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  1. titup

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  1. movement
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  • sionnach "in my head was that other potent place, conjured up by the smell of dung and paraffin, the felt-shod tittuping sound of a donkery's hooves, kites floating in a Wedgwood blue skay, the baroque gaiety of Arabic script".

    Penelope Lively, "Moon Tiger". Jan 13, 2010

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