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▪ I. tittup, n.1 Chiefly dial.|ˈtɪtəp|
Also 8–9 tit-up.
[app. echoic, from the sound of the horse's feet.]
1. A horse's canter; a hand-gallop; also, a curvet.
1703E. Ward Lond. Spy vi. (1706) 145 Citizens in Crowds..all upon the Tittup, as if he who Rid not a Gallop was to Forfeit his Horse. 1710― Poet's Ramble 6 With Whip and Spur, he might be beat-up, Into a Canterbury Tit-up. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. iv. 322, I..Had held his bridle, walked his managed mule Without a tittup the procession through. 1882Lanc. Gloss., Titherup, a hand-gallop. From the sound. Also called tit-up.
†b. transf. A cantering horse. Obs.
1805in Essex Herald 9 Apr. (1901) 8/2 Dianas also of the Chase,..some in riding habit, mounted on titups, others..in gigs. c1875[Remembered in use in Westmorland].
2. An impudent or forward woman or girl; a hussy, a minx. [Cf. tit n.3 2.] dial.
1762D. Garrick Farmer's Return fr. Lond. 9 Some Tittups I saw, and they maade me to stare! [1901F. E. Taylor Folk-Speech S. Lanc. (E.D.D.), Titty-ups, also..titty-haups, a pert, forward girl.]
3. As adv. With a tittup; at a canter.
a1764R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 82 Perhaps my muse..Which, slouching in the doggrel lay, Goes tittup all her easy way.
4. on the tittup (dial.), in a state of excitement; mentally upset.
1906Westm. Gaz. 6 Oct. 2/2 He couldn't find it [the wedding ring]... Everything was at a standstill, and we was all on the titup.
▪ II. † tittup, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
In 6 titup(p.
[f. vbl. phr. tit up, pull up, tit v.1]
The trigger of a cross-bow.
1536Bellenden Boece's Cron. Scot. xi. x. (1541) 163/2 Als sone as ony man maid him to throw this apill out of the hand of the image, the wrying of the samyn drew all the tituppis of the crosbowis [ed. 1585 quarrels of the crosse⁓bowes] vp at anis, & schot at hym yt threw ye apill. [orig. quam primum quispiam pomum manu tractando loco etiam paulum moueret: expeditæ ballistarum chordę, catapultas in tractantem ingenti vi emitterent.]
▪ III. tittup, v.|ˈtɪtəp|
Also titup.
[Goes with tittup n.1]
intr. To walk or go with an up-and-down movement; to walk in an affected manner; to mince or prance in one's gait; of a horse or other animal, to canter, gallop easily; also, to prance; hence of a rider, or one driving a vehicle; of a boat, to toss with abrupt jerky movements. Also fig.
1785in European Mag. (1786) IX. 176 Then tittup'd along with a light mincing step, Little Yoffer Van-Sploom—a well known demi-rep. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxxix, A hare that came tit-upping by me. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour li, [He] saw the horsemen titt⁓up-ing across a grass field. 1862Thackeray Philip viii, A magnificent horse dancing and tittuping. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 234 The Abstract Bagman tittups past in his spring gig. 1881E. Warren Laughing Eyes (1890) 26 The little dingy [a boat] titupped over the swell. 1904A. Griffiths 50 Yrs. Publ. Serv. 71, I can see him now tittupping over the heather on his fat grey pony. 1910E. M. Forster Howard's End xiv. 121 No one felt uneasy as he titupped along the pavements. 1968B. Healey Murder without Crime vii. 126 Like benevolent Mr. Pickwick he tittuped along beside us. 1972N. Freeling Long Silence i. 51 ‘We're not very happy about art,’ Van der Valk tittupped on.
Hence ˈtittuping vbl. n.
1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 300 The appropriateness of the harmony itself sinks before the tittuping of an arpeggio bass. 1868Morn. Star 30 Jan., For such poetic cantering, such tit-tupping of Pegasus in a rhythmic Rotten Row. |