chitter
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of chitter
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
“It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.”
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verb
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To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
“It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.”
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(Scotland, obsolete)To shiver or chatter with cold.
“Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, / An' close thy e'e?”
noun
- (alt-of, alternative, dialectal)Alternative form of chitterling.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English chiteren, chitren, cheteren. Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.
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