Witter vs Twitter - What's the difference?
witter | twitter |
(intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
to speak at length on a trivial subject.
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.
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(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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As verbs the difference between witter and twitter
is that witter is (intransitive|intransitive|obsolete|or|dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare while twitter is (ambitransitive|internet) to post an update to ; to twitter or tweet.As an adjective witter
is (obsolete|or|dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.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.
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.
