tittering

An archaic or literary adjective describing a person or thing that is laughing or giggling in a nervous, restrained, or silly manner.

• 🇩🇪Veraltetes oder literarisches Adjektiv, das eine Person oder Sache beschreibt, die nervös, verhalten oder albern kichert oder lacht.

1. Nervous or suppressed laughter B2 informal

   Characterized by or producing short, quiet, and often nervous laughs.

   • The tittering audience made the speaker uncomfortable.
   • A tittering sound came from the back of the classroom.
   • Her tittering response showed she was embarrassed.

   🇩🇪Kichernd

• more tittering comparative form
• most tittering superlative form

A verb used to express a short, nervous, or restrained laugh, often in a silly or embarrassed manner.

• 🇩🇪Kurzes, oft nervöses oder unterdrücktes Kichern, häufig auf alberne oder verlegene Weise.

1. Laugh nervously B2 informal

   To laugh in a quiet, restrained, or nervous way, often due to embarrassment or amusement.

   • The audience tittered nervously at the comedian's awkward joke.
   • She tittered when he complimented her dress.
   • They tittered behind their hands during the serious speech.

   🇩🇪Kichern

   Synonyme: chucklegigglesnickersnigger

• tittered past participle
• tittered past simple
• tittering present participle
• titters third person singular