Meaning
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- The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- A tremulous broken sound.
- A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (informal) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
Synonyms
petulance
make noise
Frequency
Hyphenated as
twit‧ter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtwɪtə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).
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