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Chitter vs Clitter - What's the difference?

chitter | clitter |

As a verb chitter

is to make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.

As a noun clitter is

loose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.

chitter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
    • (Burns)
    (Webster 1913)

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    clitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Loose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.

    • Synonyms

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