tittuping, ppl. a.
(ˈtɪtəpɪŋ)
[f. prec. + -ing2.]
That tittups; bouncing, cantering, prancing; transf., rollicking, lively; also, unsteady, rickety.
| 1796 Campaigns 1793–4 II. vii. 44 My pen glances off into titupping strains. 1809 Theo. Jones Hist. Breckn. II. 542 The poem concludes in such galloping tittuping rhymes as almost compel the reader to forget the merits the author certainly possesses. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's xiii, The ‘Dear me's’ and ‘O laa's’ of the titupping misses, and the oaths of the pantalooned or buckskinned beaux. 1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 76 They kept up a steady tittuping canter, raising a cloud of dust. |