tittup

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: tit=tup

CIDE DICTIONARY

tittup, v. i. [Cf. Teeter.].

 To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an impatient horse; to caper; to prance; to frisk.  Kipling.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

tittup, n. 

 The act of tittuping; lively, gay, or restless behavior or gait; a prance or caper.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tittup, v. & n.
--v.intr. (tittuped, tittuping or tittupped, tittupping) go about friskily or jerkily; bob up and down; canter.
--n. such a gait or movement.

Etymology

perh. imit. of hoof-beats