tittup

English

Alternative forms

• tit-tup
• titup

Etymology

Probably imitative.

Noun

tittup (plural tittups)

1. 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)

1. (intransitive) To prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 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.