This week’s theme
Words that sound taboo, but aren’t

This week’s words
cocksure
pudency
menstruum
titter
cunctative

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(TIT-uhr)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To laugh in a nervous, restrained manner.
noun: A nervous, restrained laugh.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1625.

USAGE:

“Working from home as a self-employed proofreader was incredibly solitary -- zero banter with colleagues, no office politics to chunter about, and, on the rare occasion she found something to titter about in her reading matter -- like an extra ‘t’ added to the word ‘far’, there was nobody to titter with.”
Alice Ross; The Cotswolds Cookery Club: A Taste of Italy; HarperCollins; 2017.

See more usage examples of titter in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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