twitter

Meanings

Noun

• The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
• A tremulous broken sound.
• A slight trembling of the nerves.
• Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.

Verb

• To utter a succession of chirps.
• (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
• To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
• To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
• To twit; to reproach or upbraid.
• Alternative of Twitter

Related

Similar words

• tweet

Origin

• From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną. Cognate with Low German twitteren, German zwitzern, zwitschern. Compare also Dutch kwetteren, Danish kvidre, Swedish kvittra, dialectal Swedish tittra.