Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The chirping of birds; also, any series of small, clear, intermitted sounds resembling the notes of a bird.
- n. A quivering; a flutter; a state of tremulous excitement indicative of alarm, suspense, desire, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of one who, or that which, twitters.
- n. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense.
Examples
“The term twittering describes the activity of updating a Twitter account.”
The Wall Street Journal: Birds of a Feather Twitter Together
“I'd imagine most of the twittering is done from back rooms, bathrooms, smoking areas, and cubicles.”
Looks Like MOD Can Overrule JSC (and NASA HQ) PAO - NASA Watch
“And because of that, yes, the twittering is going to be perceived by most as petty and snarky and mean.”
“It's only Tuesday, and I'm already in twittering fangirl hysterics over Wiscon.”
“At 51, Fred Couples, who began play on Saturday as the leader of the Northern Trust Open, said of Twitter, "Is it called twittering or tweeting?”
“He's been "twittering" - that's short of a one-line blog, for the technological newbies reading this - about his least favorite earmarks in the $410 billion bill.”
“There were a number of lunchers twittering from the scene and Lunch’er Rebecca posted this in the comments: The wait for food at Bon Chon has been an hour and a half since 1pm.”
“Getting a 7 foot tall, 320 pound man to do anything called twittering is insidious, especially when it involves creating a following.”
“In the blue light and in the silence her thin voice recalled the twittering of a lark.”
“Which brings me to another matter: those doing the twittering are the ones to determine which parts of the conference are covered by twitter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘twittering’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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twitterverse
tweet, retweet, follow, unfollow, MT, RT, hashtag, mention, trending, trends, twitterverse, interactions and 71 more...
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i like how these sound or look
twittering, chooky, tekeli-li, ivrogne, feckless, pertinaciously, reprehensible, scorpling, ductility, illimitable, fickleness, licentiousness and 6 more...
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Literarie: 'Lanark'
The novel 'Lanark' by Alasdair Gray.
gafuffle, coolie continent, silently, chapterhouse, intercalendrical, triforium, yacacaw, blockplag, implag, difplag, dunt, dauner and 22 more...
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Spring
wakame, nori, mugwort, spring orchid, horsetail, primrose, blossom, bud, sprout, violet, dandelion, daikon raddish and 21 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for twittering.
artm thanks gangerh, that was supposed to be "hope" indeed. Apr 28, 2008
gangerh Hoplessness? Apr 28, 2008
artm "...after the hundred and eightieth all twittering is to be treated as a sign of hopelessness." Alasdair Gray, Lanark, 1981 Apr 28, 2008