tituppy

Updated: June 6, 2025

Then he began to be complimentary, and she, to put on the silly tituppy kind of face and tone wherewith she had talked to the curates at the festival. Dolores began to find this very dull, and to feel neglected, perhaps also cross, and doubts came across her whether she might not get into a dreadful scrape about the money, which she certainly had no right to dispose of.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Two Sides of the Shield

"Don't abuse our treasure," said Cecil, demurely. "Ask papa what he thinks of Miss Prosody." "I should get a more impartial opinion from Estelle and Fleda, who are always being kept in and bullied." "Well, I really think the other children are enough for to-day," said Cecil. "What a fuss Freddy made to get after Bluebell into that tituppy little boat of yours."

Mrs. G. C. Huddleston - Bluebell: A Novel

Now when it appeared that heathens, believed to be black, were at the least inflicting heavy loss on Holy Russia, they felt as though the universe were falling. I noted in my diary: "Out here one feels very keenly the tituppy state of politics. Anything likely to upset the apple-cart should be avoided."

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle