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Webster 1913 Edition
Chitter
1.
To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
To shiver or chatter with cold.
[Scot.]
Burns.
Definition 2024
chitter
chitter
English
Verb
chitter (third-person singular simple present chitters, present participle chittering, simple past and past participle chittered)
- 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.
- (obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold.
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References
- “chitter” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.