Twittered vs Wittered - What's the difference?
twittered | wittered |
(twitter)
twitter
The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
* 1986 , IEEE, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986 (page 145)
To utter a succession of chirps.
* Gray
(transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
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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.
(neologism, Internet) To use the microblogging service .
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(witter)
(intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
to speak at length on a trivial subject.
As verbs the difference between twittered and wittered
is that twittered is past tense of twitter while wittered is past tense of witter.twittered
English
Verb
(head)English
Noun
(en noun)- I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
- Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.
Verb
(en verb)- The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
- it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me.
Synonyms
* (internet neologism) tweetDerived terms
* atwitterwittered
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.