titupping

Even the head of the great parade, with old John Burt, chief marshal, titupping to the grunt of brass horns, stirred only perfunctory applause.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

All idlers crowded to peruse them; and it would be endless to notice the “God bless me’s” — the “Lord have a care of us” — the “Saw you ever the like’s” of gossips, any more than the “Dear me’s” and “Oh, laa’s” of the titupping misses, and the oaths of the pantalooned or buck-skin’d beaux.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Mr. Rattisbon’s refusals were so gloriously in character that each titupping, pernickety refusal stung the producer into making a fresh financial assault until, so the story said, Mr. Rattisbon threatened him shrilly with the Municipal Corporation Aet of 1822 and looked about him for a constable.

Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940