Wittered vs Jittered - What's the difference?
wittered | jittered |
(witter)
(intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
to speak at length on a trivial subject.
(jitter)
A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
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* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
As verbs the difference between wittered and jittered
is that wittered is (witter) while jittered is (jitter).wittered
English
Verb
(head)witter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) witter, witer, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) witteren, witeren, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.
jittered
English
Verb
(head)jitter
English
Etymology 1
Possibly alteration ofNoun
(en noun)- That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
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.
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