Lexicographical Neighbors of Tittupy
Literary usage of Tittupy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Newes out of PC vn to canter; also, to shake or bo unsteady; to upset. tittupy,
adj. unsteady ; shaky ; ricketty : often applied to furniture. ..."
2. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"... sb. a canter ; a hand-gallop. Newes out of P. 0. vn to canter; also, to shake
or be unsteady; to upset. tittupy, adj. unsteady ; shaky ; ricketty ..."
3. The Burden of the Balkans by Mary Edith Durham. (1905)
"thought I, ' the political situation must be uncommonly " tittupy." It was my
first, but by no means my last, experience of being ' suspect,' and I was ..."
4. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"Newts out of P. 0. vn to canter ; also, to shake or be unsteady ; to upset.
tittupy, adj. unsteady ; shaky ; ricketty : often applied to furniture. ..."
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