chitter

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  1. intransitive verb To twitter or chatter, as a bird.

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  • And meanwhile one of them — one of these six people lying chitter-chattering like a row of starlings, under the sun-shed — arguing, guessing, confiding, playing half-seriously at being anxious and terrified but not nearly as anxious and terrified as they had every right to be — one of them was, in fact, a murderer. —  Tour De Force - Christianna Brand - Cockrill 06: 1955
  • Kuniko liked to sleep late, but it wouldn't be long before Sissy Levin or Jack and Lisa Dreyfus discovered that their boys weren't in their beds, or Marie Montero would tell Kim Newell that her brother was gone Everything was quiet on the path leading to the boat house, save for the chitter of grasshoarders, but as I drew closer, I could make out muted voices. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • Once they find you sitting at your computer, they'll proceed to eat your eyeballs, and then chitter a lot and self-destruct in your kitchen sink. —  Pajiba
  • The useless talking-head chitter chatter has gone from a background annoyance to a resonant hum following the surprise nomination of Governor Palin. —  Southern Appeal
  • I love to watch the chitter-chatter and good-natured back-and-forth between him and the other players. —  Poker News
 

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  1. Middle English chiteren, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English chiteren, chatter, chirp as a bird, an imitative variation of chateren, chatter: see chatter, and cf. twitter.
  2. Prob. a modification of chatter through the influence of shiver, formerly chiver; the teeth are said to chatter when one shivers with cold. Cf. chitter.
  3. Cf. chit.
  4. chitter, v.
 

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/ˈtʃɪtər/
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