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tittupping

tittupping is the present participle and gerund of tittup.

Meaning of tittup

Verb

tittup (third-person singular simple present tittups, present participle tittupping or tittuping, simple past and past participle tittupped or tittuped)

  1. (intransitive) To prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.
    • I felt a fool and was much relieved when I saw the back of Mr Bellerby as he tit-tupped away to Cowslake Manor after pressing me to accept a cheroot about eight inches long out of a crocodile-skin case.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 186

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Questions about tittupping

What is tittupping the present participle and gerund of?
Tittupping is the present participle and gerund of tittup.

Words near tittupping in the dictionary

  1. tittling
  2. tittup
  3. tittuped
  4. tittuping
  5. tittupped
  6. tittupping
  7. tittuppy
  8. tittups
  9. tittupy
  10. titty
  11. titty bar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tittupping (page history and authors); tittup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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