titter
verb (used without object)
to laugh in a restrained, self-conscious, or affected way, as from nervousness or in ill-suppressed amusement.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Very soon many dicasts are tittering and whispering jibes to their companions.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis