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Definition of Tittivating
1. tittivate [v] - See also: tittivate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tittivating
Literary usage of Tittivating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Englisch-deutsches Supplement-lexikon: Als Ergänzung zu allen bis jetzt by Alexander Hoppe (1871)
"47 : tittivating an old latticework. — SI. D. : to put in order. Tityre Tn, и.
(tlt'-'-R1 tju) паф einer Erinnerung an ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"Hoo'll stond tittivating hersel afore th' glass for an «"«• hour. TITTY, sb.
the breast, also the milk from the breast. ..."
3. Fishing by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, William Senior, Robert Bright Marston, John Popkin Traherne, Henry Ralph Francis, H. S. Hall, Thomas Andrews, William Alleyne Cecil Exeter, George Christopher Davies (1885)
"They almost all, however, depend, as pointed out in an amusing article by 'GF,'
published in the 'Fisherman's Magazine,'some years ago, upon tittivating ..."
4. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"Hoo'Il stond tittivating hersel afore th' glass for an »o• hour. TITTY, sb.
the breast, also the milk from the ..."
5. Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse by Alfred Kreymborg (1920)
"Ill f Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese Sat tittivating by their mountain
pools Or in the Yangste studied out their beards? ..."
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