clittern.
/ˈklɪtə/ dialect.
1. = clatter n.2
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1884 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 23/2 They might have taken shelter among a ‘clitter’ of rocks somewhere.
2. dialect. A flutter.
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1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 12/1 I was all of a clitter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
clitterv.
/ˈklɪtə/ a. To chatter. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter
chavel?c1225
babblea1250
chattera1250
clacka1250
janglea1300
ganglec1300
clapc1315
mumblec1350
blabberc1375
carp1377
tatterc1380
garre1382
rattlec1400
clatter1401
chimec1405
gabc1405
pattera1450
smattera1450
languetc1450
pratec1460
chat1483
jabber1499
clittera1529
cackle1530
prattle1532
blatter1533
blab1535
to run on pattens1546
tattle1547
prittle-prattlea1555
trattlea1555
tittle-tattle1556
quiddlea1566
brabble1570
clicket1570
twattle1573
gabble1574
prittle1583
to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597
to word it1612
deblaterate1623
tongue1624
twitter1630
snatter1647
oversay1656
whiffle1706
to gallop away1711
splutter1728
gob1770
gibble-gabble1775
palaver1781
to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785
gammon1789
witter1808
yabble1808
yaff1808
mag1810
chelp1820
tongue-pad1825
yatter1825
potter1826
chipper1829
jaw-jaw1831
buzz1832
to shoot off one's mouth1864
yawp1872
blate1878
chin1884
yap1888
spiel1894
to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895
to run off at the mouth1908
chattermag1909
clatfart1913
to talk a streak1915
to run one's mouth1916
natter1942
ear-bash1944
rabbit1950
yack1950
yacker1961
to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965
yacket1969
to twat on1996
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.ii He prates and he patters He clytters and he clatters.
b. Said of a grasshopper or cicada: cf. chitter v.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [verb (intransitive)] > emit sound (of cicada)
clitter1844
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [verb (intransitive)] > emit sound (of grasshopper)
petter1650
chirr1840
clitter1844
1844 Ld. Houghton To Eng. Lady in Mem. Many Scenes 177 I lay aloof, With the cicala faintly clittering near.
2. To make a thin vibratory rattle; to cause to vibrate and rattle lightly. transitive and intransitive.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle
rattlec1330
hoursch?a1400
rottlea1400
ruttlea1400
ricklec1400
to tirl at the latch, at the sneck15..
clitter1530
ruckle1700
jar1735
knock1869
ratchet1907
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (transitive)] > rattle
to shake upc1430
clitter1530
berattle1553
rattle1560
rail1770
to spring one's rattle1787
to tirl the sneck1800
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 487/1 I clytter, I make noyse, as harnesse or peuter dysshes..These peuter pottes clytter as moche as if they were of sylver.
?1562 Thersytes sig. D.iiv Clytteringe and clatteringe there youre pottes with ale.
3. dialect. To flutter.
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1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 12/1 Clittering its wings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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