tweetv.

Brit.

/twiːt/, U.S.

/twit/

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. See earlier tweet n.With sense 2 compare slightly earlier tweet n. 2 and discussion at that entry.

a. transitive. Of a bird: to communicate (something) with a brief high-pitched sound or call, or a series of such sounds. Also in extended use. Frequently with direct speech as object.

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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > chirp or sing

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1851 G. Meredith Poems 92 The little bird..Tweets to its mate a tiny loving note.

1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 63 ‘Oh,’ tweet-tweets a diaconal pullet, ‘how splendid!’

1955 Life 19 Dec. 93/2 Back in his studio Weismann snipped and spliced taped barks so that the pinscher would tweet the one high note, the shepherds would woof the low ones.

1978 O. Saigal Tripura 146 On hearing this a small bird came out and tweeted: ‘Kumoi is dead!’

1999 N. Charles Sophie Sea to Sea x. 121 ‘Attention, boys and girls,’ she tweeted, clapping her hands.

b. intransitive. Of a bird: to make a brief high-pitched sound or call, or a series of such sounds. Also in extended use.

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1856 Leisure Hour 20 Mar. 186/2 The small birds shook the spray from their wings and cowered under the hedges, tweeting plaintively.

1900 Atlantic Monthly May 631/2 Two or three solitary sandpipers flit before me, tweeting and bobbing.

1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River iii. 33 A big dirty city is better than a technicolor sunrise out in the sticks, no matter how many songbirds are tweeting.

1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight (1990) xxx. 326 The telephone on the wall started tweeting.

2001 A. Bissett Boyracers 180 The neighbours exiting stage-left for work. Birds tweeting.

a. transitive. To post (a message, image, link, etc.) on the social networking service Twitter. Also: to post a message to (a particular person, organization, etc.). Cf. tweet n. 2.

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2006 @CyberWanderlust 27 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Got the new phone, so you can tweet me again, you sick bastards!

2009 Idaho Business Rev. (Nexis) 30 Mar. Facing car problems, Flynn tweeted friends to find a reliable mechanic. ‘Within 15 minutes I had 25 responses from my peers.’

2011 Cape Argus (Nexis) 3 Aug. e2 Facebook and Twitter were abuzz with news of the crash as people tweeted pictures from the scene.

2013 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 9 Jan. 5 Before he went on stage he tweeted: ‘Ahhh Belfast so nice to be back! Looking forward to a cracking evening.’

b. intransitive. To make a posting on Twitter. Also: to use Twitter regularly or habitually. Cf. tweet n. 2.

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2007 @Mantia 15 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) He'll be able to tweet more often with Twitterrific.

2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Sept. 46/1 It's easy to tweet all the time, to post pictures of what I'm doing, to keep social relations up.

2010 L. Margolis Girl's Best Friend iv. 31 Do you Tweet? All the dog walkers are on Twitter these days.

2012 Church Times 27 July 24/1 Cross, his press person, tweets a great deal, and on Monday we had two tweets drawing attention to polls.

Derivatives

ˈtweeted adj. (of a message, image, link, etc.) that has been sent via the social networking service Twitter.

ΚΠ

2007 @Schilling 4 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Derek is onto something..in terms of tweeted recommendations and/or warnings, or even adopting routine-like behaviour.

2012 Independent 2 Apr. 25/2 Twitter users might engage by..simply clicking on a tweeted link.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tweetint.n.

Brit.

/twiːt/, U.S.

/twit/

Forms: 1500s tueit (Scottish), 1700s– tweet.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. Compare twit int. and n.²In sense B. 2 after Twitter , the name of a social networking service, itself so called in allusion to the twittering of birds (compare twitter n.³ 2, twitter v.¹).

A. int.

Representing a brief high-pitched sound or call as made by a small bird.Frequently reduplicated to indicate repetition.

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c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The ox ee [sc. titmouse] cryit tueit.

1768 I. Bickerstaff Lionel & Clarissa ii. xiv. 51 Lion. Hark to Philomel, how sweet, From yonder elm. Col. Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.

1845 Zoologist 3 1063 Its usual note is monosyllabic, and like tweet, tweet, tweet.

1871 Student & Schoolmate Jan. 26 The bird, who, from his perch upon the nearest tree, looked down at her sidelong, answered ‘Tweet! Tweet!’ as if he were laughing at her.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 10/1 ‘Wheet, tweet, tweet’,..they [sc. quails] called in the meadows.

1916 Kindergarten Primary Mag. June 292/1 ‘Tweet! Tweet! I wish I could fly,’ said one little bird.

2006 M. Apostolina Dark Cindy 220 The birds were gone. Thank goodness. But strangely—and ominously—I could still hear them. Tweet-tweet! Tweet-tweet!

B. n.

1. A brief high-pitched sound or call made by a small bird; a similar sound to this. Also in extended use.

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1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 337 Its [sc. the mountain finch's] flight is rapid and undulated, and its note is a tweet very similar to that of the Chaffinch.

1851 G. Meredith S.-W.-Wind in Woodland 8 A chirp or tweet, That utters fear or anxious love.

1897 A. H. Rea in Bards Angus & Mearns 378 I heard the skylark singing gay, The tweet o' tiny wren.

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 286/1 The ‘tweet tweet’ of the snipe.

1955 Life 19 Sept. 183 (heading) Tricked with a tweet... French whistle at grasshoppers to learn about their mating call.

1992 M. Anderson Impostors in Temple v. 191 Not a peep from the trustees of Stanford, not a tweet from the faculty.

2002 L. Sonna Everything Toddler Bk. ii. 19 When you go for a walk around the neighborhood, help your toddler notice the tweet of a bird.

2. A posting in the form of a message, image, or link, made on the social networking service Twitter.Each posting was originally limited to 140 characters; the limit increased to 280 characters in 2017.

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2006 @CyberWanderlust 23 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Thanks for new Twidget and knowing who likes my tweet and who don't.

2008 Wired Sept. 44/2 Twitter is a democracy—if users don't like your tweets, they can vote with their PCs and drop your feed.

2010 East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Arizona) (Nexis) 30 Dec. Councilwoman Dina Higgins sent a tweet that snow is falling in her east Mesa backyard.

2012 M. Hyatt Platform 163 I..schedule my tweets, so I don't flood my followers with a string of posts all at once.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tweet
释义	tweetv. Brit. /twiːt/, U.S. /twit/ Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. See earlier tweet n.With sense 2 compare slightly earlier tweet n. 2 and discussion at that entry. 1. a. transitive. Of a bird: to communicate (something) with a brief high-pitched sound or call, or a series of such sounds. Also in extended use. Frequently with direct speech as object. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > chirp or sing bechirma1250 twittera1387 chitter1393 chatterc1400 bechirp1600 chirp1614 chirrupa1657 gambola1657 tweet1851 jargon1894 1851 G. Meredith Poems 92 The little bird..Tweets to its mate a tiny loving note. 1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 63 ‘Oh,’ tweet-tweets a diaconal pullet, ‘how splendid!’ 1955 Life 19 Dec. 93/2 Back in his studio Weismann snipped and spliced taped barks so that the pinscher would tweet the one high note, the shepherds would woof the low ones. 1978 O. Saigal Tripura 146 On hearing this a small bird came out and tweeted: ‘Kumoi is dead!’ 1999 N. Charles Sophie Sea to Sea x. 121 ‘Attention, boys and girls,’ she tweeted, clapping her hands. b. intransitive. Of a bird: to make a brief high-pitched sound or call, or a series of such sounds. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > chirp or twitter chirmOE chattera1250 janglea1300 jargon?a1366 chirkc1386 chirtc1386 chitterc1386 twittera1387 chirpc1440 yipc1440 channerc1480 quitter1513 chirrup1579 chipper1593 pip1598 gingreate1623 chita1639 sweet1677 shatter17.. swee-swee1839 weet-weet1845 cheet1855 tweet1856 twiddle1863 weet1866 1856 Leisure Hour 20 Mar. 186/2 The small birds shook the spray from their wings and cowered under the hedges, tweeting plaintively. 1900 Atlantic Monthly May 631/2 Two or three solitary sandpipers flit before me, tweeting and bobbing. 1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River iii. 33 A big dirty city is better than a technicolor sunrise out in the sticks, no matter how many songbirds are tweeting. 1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight (1990) xxx. 326 The telephone on the wall started tweeting. 2001 A. Bissett Boyracers 180 The neighbours exiting stage-left for work. Birds tweeting. 2. a. transitive. To post (a message, image, link, etc.) on the social networking service Twitter. Also: to post a message to (a particular person, organization, etc.). Cf. tweet n. 2. ΚΠ 2006 @CyberWanderlust 27 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Got the new phone, so you can tweet me again, you sick bastards! 2009 Idaho Business Rev. (Nexis) 30 Mar. Facing car problems, Flynn tweeted friends to find a reliable mechanic. ‘Within 15 minutes I had 25 responses from my peers.’ 2011 Cape Argus (Nexis) 3 Aug. e2 Facebook and Twitter were abuzz with news of the crash as people tweeted pictures from the scene. 2013 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 9 Jan. 5 Before he went on stage he tweeted: ‘Ahhh Belfast so nice to be back! Looking forward to a cracking evening.’ b. intransitive. To make a posting on Twitter. Also: to use Twitter regularly or habitually. Cf. tweet n. 2. ΚΠ 2007 @Mantia 15 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) He'll be able to tweet more often with Twitterrific. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Sept. 46/1 It's easy to tweet all the time, to post pictures of what I'm doing, to keep social relations up. 2010 L. Margolis Girl's Best Friend iv. 31 Do you Tweet? All the dog walkers are on Twitter these days. 2012 Church Times 27 July 24/1 Cross, his press person, tweets a great deal, and on Monday we had two tweets drawing attention to polls. Derivatives ˈtweeted adj. (of a message, image, link, etc.) that has been sent via the social networking service Twitter. ΚΠ 2007 @Schilling 4 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Derek is onto something..in terms of tweeted recommendations and/or warnings, or even adopting routine-like behaviour. 2012 Independent 2 Apr. 25/2 Twitter users might engage by..simply clicking on a tweeted link. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tweetint.n. Brit. /twiːt/, U.S. /twit/ Forms: 1500s tueit (Scottish), 1700s– tweet. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. Compare twit int. and n.²In sense B. 2 after Twitter , the name of a social networking service, itself so called in allusion to the twittering of birds (compare twitter n.³ 2, twitter v.¹). A. int. Representing a brief high-pitched sound or call as made by a small bird.Frequently reduplicated to indicate repetition. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The ox ee [sc. titmouse] cryit tueit. 1768 I. Bickerstaff Lionel & Clarissa ii. xiv. 51 Lion. Hark to Philomel, how sweet, From yonder elm. Col. Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet. 1845 Zoologist 3 1063 Its usual note is monosyllabic, and like tweet, tweet, tweet. 1871 Student & Schoolmate Jan. 26 The bird, who, from his perch upon the nearest tree, looked down at her sidelong, answered ‘Tweet! Tweet!’ as if he were laughing at her. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 10/1 ‘Wheet, tweet, tweet’,..they [sc. quails] called in the meadows. 1916 Kindergarten Primary Mag. June 292/1 ‘Tweet! Tweet! I wish I could fly,’ said one little bird. 2006 M. Apostolina Dark Cindy 220 The birds were gone. Thank goodness. But strangely—and ominously—I could still hear them. Tweet-tweet! Tweet-tweet! B. n. 1. A brief high-pitched sound or call made by a small bird; a similar sound to this. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > twitter or chirp chattera1250 twit1602 twitter1709 twit1769 chirrup1830 churr1837 tweet1837 chipper1844 chirp1850 chitter1869 the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [interjection] > imitation of call of bird cockc1405 jug, jug1523 pewewea1525 te-whita1529 twit1602 sweet-sweet1606 weet-weet1808 weet1863 whee-oh1892 spink1898 tweet1992 1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 337 Its [sc. the mountain finch's] flight is rapid and undulated, and its note is a tweet very similar to that of the Chaffinch. 1851 G. Meredith S.-W.-Wind in Woodland 8 A chirp or tweet, That utters fear or anxious love. 1897 A. H. Rea in Bards Angus & Mearns 378 I heard the skylark singing gay, The tweet o' tiny wren. 1910 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 286/1 The ‘tweet tweet’ of the snipe. 1955 Life 19 Sept. 183 (heading) Tricked with a tweet... French whistle at grasshoppers to learn about their mating call. 1992 M. Anderson Impostors in Temple v. 191 Not a peep from the trustees of Stanford, not a tweet from the faculty. 2002 L. Sonna Everything Toddler Bk. ii. 19 When you go for a walk around the neighborhood, help your toddler notice the tweet of a bird. 2. A posting in the form of a message, image, or link, made on the social networking service Twitter.Each posting was originally limited to 140 characters; the limit increased to 280 characters in 2017. ΚΠ 2006 @CyberWanderlust 23 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Thanks for new Twidget and knowing who likes my tweet and who don't. 2008 Wired Sept. 44/2 Twitter is a democracy—if users don't like your tweets, they can vote with their PCs and drop your feed. 2010 East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Arizona) (Nexis) 30 Dec. Councilwoman Dina Higgins sent a tweet that snow is falling in her east Mesa backyard. 2012 M. Hyatt Platform 163 I..schedule my tweets, so I don't flood my followers with a string of posts all at once. 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