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Pittered vs Jittered - What's the difference?

pittered | jittered |

As verbs the difference between pittered and jittered

is that pittered is past tense of pitter while jittered is past tense of jitter.

pittered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pitter)

    • Anagrams

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    pitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • See pitter-patter.
  • A device that removes pits from fruit such as olives or cherries.

    • Derived terms

    * cherry pitter * olive pitter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a pattering sound.

    • jittered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (jitter)

    • 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.

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