tittup

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably imitative.

Noun

tittup (plural tittups)

  1. A caper, or canter.

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.
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 186:
      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.
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