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▪ I. chittering, vbl. n.|ˈtʃɪtərɪŋ|
Also chithering.
[f. chitter v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. chitter: twittering, shivering, chattering.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 19 The swalow Progne..made her chiteryng. 1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. xix. 34 a, Of birdes..Carus fyrste marked the chyttering. 1552Huloet, Chytteryng, quiueryng or shakyng for cold. 1827in Hone Every-Day Bk. II. 903 The chithering of grasshoppers. 1870J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Jordan, It was only the chittering of their bills. Mod. Sc. He could not speak for the chittering of his teeth.
2. Comb., in chittering-bite, -crust, -piece, (Sc.), a bit of bread, etc., taken to prevent shivering or chattering of the teeth; cf. shivering-bite.
1808Jamieson, Boys..call that bit of bread, which they preserve for eating after bathing, a chittering piece. 1854Badham Halieut. 529 The Greeks..appear to have begun the day with a sort of ‘chittering crust’ (ἀκράτισµα).
▪ II. chittering, ppl. a.|ˈtʃɪtərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That chitters (in all the senses of the vb.).
1785Burns Winter Night iv, Whare wilt thou cow'r thy chittering wing. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 176 The chittering cricket. 1887Stevenson Underwoods ii. ii. 83 Wauken, at cauld-rife sax o'clock My chitterin' frame. |