jittern.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɪdər/

Etymology: Origin unknown.

colloquial.

a. plural (usually the jitters). Extreme nervousness, nervous incapacity; a state of emotional and (often) physical tension; agitation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [noun] > nervousness > (the) jitters

the jitters1929

jitterbug1934

habdabs1946

1929 P. Sturges Strictly Dishonorable ii. 123 Isabelle. Willie's got the jitters—. Judge. Jitters? Isabelle. You know, he makes faces all the time.

1930 N.Y. Press 2 Apr. 6/4 The game is played only after the mugs and wenches have taken on too much gin and they arrive at the state of jitters, a disease known among the common herd as heebie jeebies.

1931 Charlottesville (Va.) Progress 23 Mar. 12/8 Swift moving elevators and roller coasters also give her the jitters.

1931 Harper's Mag. Mar. 420/2 How much of a price did we pay next day for a not very good party? How many kinds of hangovers are there? How much do you have to drink to get ‘jitters’? I know my hostess called me up to say she had the jitters and her husband an awful hangover.

1932 E. Wilson (title) The American jitters.

1933 Passing Show 15 July 14/1 Oh Heck, tell some photographer I can't be photographed. The very sight of a camera nowadays gives me the jitters.

1934 Redbook Mag. June 38/2 You begin to have the ‘jitters’. Your placid disposition has given way to irritability, sarcasm and dissatisfaction.

1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools vi. 44 My old jitters had returned and I had started to shake.

1937 Daily Herald 12 Jan. 15/5 All this chatter about rough play has been to give players..the jitters.

1939 F. M. Ford Let. 23 May (1965) 324 All the publishers here have the jitters so badly that they won't look at anything new at all.

1945 Univ. of Colorado Stud. Ser. B. II. iv. 42 The cures of General Semantics are not limited, fortunately, to those suffering from platform jitters.

1957 Economist 7 Sept. 759/1 The recession jitters now afflicting significant numbers of economists..seem to be better founded on economic evidence than did the others.

1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 229 The signal came, the machine-gun fire stopped... Geordie was next to me, not showing a sign of his earlier jitters.

b. jitter party n. Military slang (see quot. 1948).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > party to cause panic

jitter party1948

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 102 Jitter party, a party of Japanese sneaking around the perimeter of a camp and trying to cause panic with strange noises and grenades.

1956 W. Slim Defeat into Victory xviii. 430 Only a few jitter parties prowled about the perimeter.

1962 Times 16 Oct. 14/6 Still less was anyone to return the unaimed small-arms fire so often indulged in after nightfall by Japanese ‘jitter-parties’.

2. Chiefly Electronics. Random or irregular variation in the shape or timing of a regularly repeated pulse; the resulting unsteadiness of an image in a cathode-ray tube. Also in Cinematography, jerkiness of the picture.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > faults

ghost image1872

flicker1899

jitter1943

strobing1959

flickering1968

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [noun] > pulse > irregular variation

jitter1943

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > cathode-ray tube > [noun] > line or pattern on screen > appearances on screen

grass1943

jitter1943

1943 Electronic Engin. 16 55/2 Absence of ‘jitter’ or hum derived from fluctuations of the H.T. supply potential.

1954 Electronic Engin. 26 37/2 V₆..failed to fire properly..and caused considerable ‘jitter’ in the output pulse length.

1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 231 The main danger of rostrum tracks and pans is strobing, or jitter.

1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 339 Jitter, uncontrolled movement on the screen caused by faulty animation, tracing or camera work.

1960 J. D. Haigh Radiolocation Techniques v. 76 If the displayed picture is to be..free from ‘jitter’ echoes must appear in exactly the same position at each recurrence of the time-base.

1966 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 39 920 The principal experimental parameters are the mean interval between pulses and root-mean-square deviation or jitter about this interval.

1966 R. J. Ross Television Film Engin. i. 5 Very slight errors in registration cause vertical or horizontal unsteadiness in screen presentations, commonly known as jitter or weave.

Derivatives

ˈjitteriness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [noun] > nervousness > (the) jitters > condition of being jittery

jitteriness1936

1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools iv. 26 A slight return of jitteriness.

1950 H. E. Bates Scarlet Sword ii. 17 An atmosphere of tense and growing jitteriness.

1957 Listener 12 Dec. 968/2 An impression of weakness and jitteriness.

ˈjittery adj. nervy, jumpy, upset, ‘on edge’; also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > nervous

nervous1740

nerve-shaken1818

twitchety1859

nervy1873

trepidatious1904

all of a wonk1918

spooky1926

squirrelly1928

jittery1931

spooked1937

hinky1956

psyched1961

nattery1966

1931 H. Crane Let. 1 May (1965) 369 I'm too jittery to write a straight sentence.

1937 Daily Mirror 27 Feb. 10/4 Stop being so jittery. What if we have missed the bus? There will be another later.

1941 Penguin New Writing 10 23 Jittery light sprang on the screen.

1946 Mind 55 137 There is the effect of their [sc. the Wittgensteinians'] therapy upon ordinary philosophers. Under its attack, the latter tend, in general, to become ‘jittery’ and to retreat into worried silence.

1963 A. Ross Australia 63 viii. 153 Barrington made 33, in his more jittery manner, before flicking at an outswinger and being caught at slip.

1970 B. W. Aldiss Moment of Eclipse 47 Nobody gets jittery down there?

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 279 Clutched-up, jittery, stirred-up, fearful.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

jitterv.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɪdər/

Etymology: Origin unknown.

colloquial.

1. intransitive. To move in an agitated manner; to exhibit alarm, to act in a nervous way, to get the ‘jitters’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > show signs of nervousness

nerve1801

jitter1931

1931 A. M. Mackenzie Cypress in Moonlight iv. iv. 226 Her lace cap jittered tremulously till her earrings rattled.

1932 Brevities (N.Y.) 5 Dec. 16 (heading) Jittering junkies sniff sexy joy flakes.

1936 M. Allingham Flowers for Judge xxi. 301 You've been jittering around the Continent like an agitated tourist.

1938 Notes & Queries 5 Mar. 172/1 My daily paper this morning points out that the total of the workless is higher, and adds, ‘But don't jitter!’

1959 ‘P. Quentin’ Shadow of Guilt vii. 67 My thoughts jittered around Chuck.

1960 ‘S. Harvester’ Chinese Hammer vi. 64 There was a funny atmosphere about him. He jittered.

1966 Electronics 17 Oct. 109 If the error signal during the measurement period is too low, the antenna may jitter.

1970 New Yorker 28 Feb. 73/1 He sat there quietly, taking part in the dinner, but I knew that under the table his leg was jittering wildly.

2. transitive. To propel by nervous energy; to fluster.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by nervous energy

jitter1932

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)]

bewhapec1320

mara1350

blunder?a1400

mada1425

to turn a person's brainc1440

astonish1530

maskc1540

dare1547

bemud1599

bedazea1605

dizzy1604

bemist1609

muddify1647

lose1649

bafflea1657

bewildera1680

bother?1718

bemuse1734

muddlea1748

flurrya1757

muzz1786

muzzle1796

flusker1841

haze1858

bemuddle1862

jitter1932

giggle-

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > propel (of feet)

jitter1932

1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon ii. 18 His effort to be statuesque while his feet jittered him away out of danger was very funny to the crowd.

1951 C. D. Simak Time & Again (1956) xvi. 78 He knew that I would catch and he thinks he can jitter me.

3. transitive. To subject (a series of pulses, or some characteristic of it) to rapid variation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > cause to pulsate [verb (transitive)] > subject pulses to rapid variation

jitter1960

1960 J. D. Haigh Radiolocation Techniques xvii. 251 In order that an aircraft might be able to identify the responses to its own transmissions its pulse recurrence frequency was ‘jittered’ automatically.

1966 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 39 920/2 Jittering the interval between pulses might also eliminate perceptual differences.

Derivatives

ˈjittered adj.

ΚΠ

1966 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 39 922/1 Assumptions of ideal distributions were used to obtain power-density spectra of jittered pulse-train signals.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jitter
释义	jittern. Brit. /ˈdʒɪtə/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪdər/ Etymology: Origin unknown. colloquial. 1. a. plural (usually the jitters). Extreme nervousness, nervous incapacity; a state of emotional and (often) physical tension; agitation. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [noun] > nervousness > (the) jitters the jitters1929 jitterbug1934 habdabs1946 1929 P. Sturges Strictly Dishonorable ii. 123 Isabelle. Willie's got the jitters—. Judge. Jitters? Isabelle. You know, he makes faces all the time. 1930 N.Y. Press 2 Apr. 6/4 The game is played only after the mugs and wenches have taken on too much gin and they arrive at the state of jitters, a disease known among the common herd as heebie jeebies. 1931 Charlottesville (Va.) Progress 23 Mar. 12/8 Swift moving elevators and roller coasters also give her the jitters. 1931 Harper's Mag. Mar. 420/2 How much of a price did we pay next day for a not very good party? How many kinds of hangovers are there? How much do you have to drink to get ‘jitters’? I know my hostess called me up to say she had the jitters and her husband an awful hangover. 1932 E. Wilson (title) The American jitters. 1933 Passing Show 15 July 14/1 Oh Heck, tell some photographer I can't be photographed. The very sight of a camera nowadays gives me the jitters. 1934 Redbook Mag. June 38/2 You begin to have the ‘jitters’. Your placid disposition has given way to irritability, sarcasm and dissatisfaction. 1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools vi. 44 My old jitters had returned and I had started to shake. 1937 Daily Herald 12 Jan. 15/5 All this chatter about rough play has been to give players..the jitters. 1939 F. M. Ford Let. 23 May (1965) 324 All the publishers here have the jitters so badly that they won't look at anything new at all. 1945 Univ. of Colorado Stud. Ser. B. II. iv. 42 The cures of General Semantics are not limited, fortunately, to those suffering from platform jitters. 1957 Economist 7 Sept. 759/1 The recession jitters now afflicting significant numbers of economists..seem to be better founded on economic evidence than did the others. 1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 229 The signal came, the machine-gun fire stopped... Geordie was next to me, not showing a sign of his earlier jitters. b. jitter party n. Military slang (see quot. 1948). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > party to cause panic jitter party1948 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 102 Jitter party, a party of Japanese sneaking around the perimeter of a camp and trying to cause panic with strange noises and grenades. 1956 W. Slim Defeat into Victory xviii. 430 Only a few jitter parties prowled about the perimeter. 1962 Times 16 Oct. 14/6 Still less was anyone to return the unaimed small-arms fire so often indulged in after nightfall by Japanese ‘jitter-parties’. 2. Chiefly Electronics. Random or irregular variation in the shape or timing of a regularly repeated pulse; the resulting unsteadiness of an image in a cathode-ray tube. Also in Cinematography, jerkiness of the picture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > faults ghost image1872 flicker1899 jitter1943 strobing1959 flickering1968 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [noun] > pulse > irregular variation jitter1943 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > cathode-ray tube > [noun] > line or pattern on screen > appearances on screen grass1943 jitter1943 1943 Electronic Engin. 16 55/2 Absence of ‘jitter’ or hum derived from fluctuations of the H.T. supply potential. 1954 Electronic Engin. 26 37/2 V₆..failed to fire properly..and caused considerable ‘jitter’ in the output pulse length. 1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 231 The main danger of rostrum tracks and pans is strobing, or jitter. 1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 339 Jitter, uncontrolled movement on the screen caused by faulty animation, tracing or camera work. 1960 J. D. Haigh Radiolocation Techniques v. 76 If the displayed picture is to be..free from ‘jitter’ echoes must appear in exactly the same position at each recurrence of the time-base. 1966 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 39 920 The principal experimental parameters are the mean interval between pulses and root-mean-square deviation or jitter about this interval. 1966 R. J. Ross Television Film Engin. i. 5 Very slight errors in registration cause vertical or horizontal unsteadiness in screen presentations, commonly known as jitter or weave. Derivatives ˈjitteriness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [noun] > nervousness > (the) jitters > condition of being jittery jitteriness1936 1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools iv. 26 A slight return of jitteriness. 1950 H. E. Bates Scarlet Sword ii. 17 An atmosphere of tense and growing jitteriness. 1957 Listener 12 Dec. 968/2 An impression of weakness and jitteriness. ˈjittery adj. nervy, jumpy, upset, ‘on edge’; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > nervous nervous1740 nerve-shaken1818 twitchety1859 nervy1873 trepidatious1904 all of a wonk1918 spooky1926 squirrelly1928 jittery1931 spooked1937 hinky1956 psyched1961 nattery1966 1931 H. Crane Let. 1 May (1965) 369 I'm too jittery to write a straight sentence. 1937 Daily Mirror 27 Feb. 10/4 Stop being so jittery. What if we have missed the bus? There will be another later. 1941 Penguin New Writing 10 23 Jittery light sprang on the screen. 1946 Mind 55 137 There is the effect of their [sc. the Wittgensteinians'] therapy upon ordinary philosophers. Under its attack, the latter tend, in general, to become ‘jittery’ and to retreat into worried silence. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 viii. 153 Barrington made 33, in his more jittery manner, before flicking at an outswinger and being caught at slip. 1970 B. W. Aldiss Moment of Eclipse 47 Nobody gets jittery down there? 1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 279 Clutched-up, jittery, stirred-up, fearful. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). jitterv. Brit. /ˈdʒɪtə/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪdər/ Etymology: Origin unknown. colloquial. 1. intransitive. To move in an agitated manner; to exhibit alarm, to act in a nervous way, to get the ‘jitters’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > show signs of nervousness nerve1801 jitter1931 1931 A. M. Mackenzie Cypress in Moonlight iv. iv. 226 Her lace cap jittered tremulously till her earrings rattled. 1932 Brevities (N.Y.) 5 Dec. 16 (heading) Jittering junkies sniff sexy joy flakes. 1936 M. Allingham Flowers for Judge xxi. 301 You've been jittering around the Continent like an agitated tourist. 1938 Notes & Queries 5 Mar. 172/1 My daily paper this morning points out that the total of the workless is higher, and adds, ‘But don't jitter!’ 1959 ‘P. Quentin’ Shadow of Guilt vii. 67 My thoughts jittered around Chuck. 1960 ‘S. Harvester’ Chinese Hammer vi. 64 There was a funny atmosphere about him. He jittered. 1966 Electronics 17 Oct. 109 If the error signal during the measurement period is too low, the antenna may jitter. 1970 New Yorker 28 Feb. 73/1 He sat there quietly, taking part in the dinner, but I knew that under the table his leg was jittering wildly. 2. transitive. To propel by nervous energy; to fluster. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by nervous energy jitter1932 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)] bewhapec1320 mara1350 blunder?a1400 mada1425 to turn a person's brainc1440 astonish1530 maskc1540 dare1547 bemud1599 bedazea1605 dizzy1604 bemist1609 muddify1647 lose1649 bafflea1657 bewildera1680 bother?1718 bemuse1734 muddlea1748 flurrya1757 muzz1786 muzzle1796 flusker1841 haze1858 bemuddle1862 jitter1932 giggle- the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > propel (of feet) jitter1932 1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon ii. 18 His effort to be statuesque while his feet jittered him away out of danger was very funny to the crowd. 1951 C. D. Simak Time & Again (1956) xvi. 78 He knew that I would catch and he thinks he can jitter me. 3. transitive. To subject (a series of pulses, or some characteristic of it) to rapid variation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > cause to pulsate [verb (transitive)] > subject pulses to rapid variation jitter1960 1960 J. D. Haigh Radiolocation Techniques xvii. 251 In order that an aircraft might be able to identify the responses to its own transmissions its pulse recurrence frequency was ‘jittered’ automatically. 1966 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 39 920/2 Jittering the interval between pulses might also eliminate perceptual differences. Derivatives ˈjittered adj. ΚΠ 1966 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 39 922/1 Assumptions of ideal distributions were used to obtain power-density spectra of jittered pulse-train signals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1929v.1931
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