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▪ I. twitty, a.1 dial.|ˈtwɪtɪ| [f. twit n.1 + -y.] See quots.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Twitty, adj. cross; snappish. 1893F. B. Zincke Wherstead xxvi. (ed. 2) 251 (E. Anglian Dial.) ‘Trunch’ for short and thick; ‘twitty’ for snappish. ▪ II. ˈtwitty, a.2 [f. twit n.2 + -y.] Full of or containing ‘twits’: see twit n.2
1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 119 Such a draft would..be too much for any wool and would make the sliver twitty. Ibid. 131 No yarn can spin well when it is twitty. |