tittup

plural tittups · alternative tit-tup · alternative titup

1. A caper, or canter.

present singular third person tittups · participle present tittupping · participle present tittuping · participle past tittupped · past tittupped · participle past tittuped · past tittuped · alternative tit-tup · alternative titup

1. intransitiveTo prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.

   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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   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.

   1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 186

   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.

   1955, Patrick White, chapter 18, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 333