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And it's so fun to hang with that crowd that I just might have to figure out what a twitter is and crash the next tweet-up ....

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Definitions (26)

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  1. intransitive verb To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup.
  2. intransitive verb To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner: twittering over office gossip.
  3. intransitive verb To giggle nervously; titter.
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  • She heard a chirp and a twitter, and when she looked at the bare flower-bed at her left side there he was hopping about and pretending to peck things out of the earth to persuade her that he had not followed her. —  The Secret Garden
  • And it's so fun to hang with that crowd that I just might have to figure out what a twitter is and crash the next tweet-up .... —  Cincinnati Blog
  • Then all the twitter was about the end of the Communion, an alternative authority and a power-base shifting from Canterbury to Africa. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • I do, however, follow folks who don't follow me ... but that because their twitter is an extension of their blog or web presence. —  Headphonaught's Nanolog
  • "That music sets me all in a twitter, and I should have looked nice in Fan's blue tarlatan, and I know I could behave as well as any one, and have lots of partners, though I 'm not in that set. —  An Old-Fashioned Girl
 

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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English twiteren, ultimately of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English twiteren, twitren = Dutch kwetteren = Old High German zwizirōn, Middle High German zwitzern, Greek zwitschern = Swedish quittra = Danish kvidre, twitter; prob. orig. imitative.
  2. from twitter' v.
  3. from twit + -er.
  4. Perhaps a dial. corruption of flitter or fritter.
  5. A dial. variant of quitter.
 

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