Witter vs Sitter - What's the difference?
witter | sitter |
(intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
to speak at length on a trivial subject.
Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
One employed to watch or tend something; the general form of babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
A broody hen.
(football, and, snooker, slang) A very easy scoring chance.
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As an adjective witter
is (obsolete|or|dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.As a verb witter
is (intransitive|intransitive|obsolete|or|dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.As a noun sitter is
someone who sits, eg for a portrait.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.
sitter
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Noun
(en noun)- It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
- How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter !