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English
Etymology
Probably imitative.
Noun
tittup (plural tittups)
- 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)
- (intransitive) To prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 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.
1955, Patrick White, chapter 18, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 333:After this he began to go outside [the pub], many coats and yellow, thin overcoats opening willingly for him to pass, until he was out, or his legs had carried him there. He was tittuping.
- 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, New York: Berkley, Book 3, Chapter 25, p. 424,
- There were urbane abbots, titupping along on ambling palfreys, in furred hoods which were against the rules of their orders,
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