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- verb Present participle of
tittivate .
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Examples
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Supper, coming after dinner, should consist of some gentle provocative; and therefore the tittivating art is again in requisition, and again — done honour to by Mr. and Mrs. Merrywinkle, still comforted and abetted by Mrs. Chopper.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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Salvation Army jersey tittivating the six-pounder gun in the last little ship of the line.
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Her mistress, tittivating the ribbons, ignored the question.
Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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"Nay, Bessie, I's been thrang as Throp wife, cleaning and tittivating."
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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Supper, coming after dinner, should consist of some gentle provocative; and therefore the tittivating art is again in requisition, and again -- done honour to by Mr. and Mrs. Merrywinkle, still comforted and abetted by Mrs. Chopper.
Sketches of Young Couples Charles Dickens 1841
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Supper, coming after dinner, should consist of some gentle provocative; and therefore the tittivating art is again in requisition, and again -- done honour to by Mr. and Mrs. Merrywinkle, still comforted and abetted by Mrs. Chopper.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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Watching us, "says she, cool as be-damned before the mirror, tittivating her low-cut bodice.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"Dancing With The Stars" had viewers scrambling for a dictionary Monday night after Judge Bruno Tonioli called Pamela Anderson's Marilyn Monroe-inspired foxtrot "tittivating."
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Watching us, "says she, cool as be-damned before the mirror, tittivating her low-cut bodice.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Watching us, "says she, cool as be-damned before the mirror, tittivating her low-cut bodice.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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