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Jitter vs Witter - What's the difference?

jitter | witter |

In lang=en terms the difference between jitter and witter

is that jitter is to be nervous while witter is to speak at length on a trivial subject.

As verbs the difference between jitter and witter

is that jitter is to be nervous while witter is (intransitive|intransitive|obsolete|or|dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.

As a noun jitter

is a nervous action; a tic or jitter can be (computing) a program or routine that performs jitting.

As an adjective witter is

(obsolete|or|dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.

jitter

English

Etymology 1

Possibly alteration of

Noun

(en noun)
  • A nervous action; a tic.
  • A state of nervousness.
    • That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
    • It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Bolton deserve real credit, seeking to take advantage of their jitters at every opportunity in typically determined fashion.}}
  • (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
    • Related terms
    * jitterbug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be nervous.
    • Synonyms
    * fidget

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting.

    • Anagrams

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    witter

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) witter, witer, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) witteren, witeren, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
  • to speak at length on a trivial subject.
    • She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.
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