tityret (titire)

[Also tittery, tittyrie; abbr. of tityre-tu.] 1. Same as tityre - tu. No news of Navies burnt at seas; No noise of late spawn'd Tittyries. 6359 tol (tö), prep., adv., and conj. [ senses. 2. Gin. Bailey , 1731. Gin sold under the names of double geneva, royal geneva, celestial geneva, tittery. gained...universal applause. G. Smith, Complete Distiller, quoted in S. Dowell's Taxes [in England, IV. 103.