单词 | twitterer |
释义 | twitterern.1 1. A bird, esp. one with a call characterized by repeated light tremulous sounds. Cf. twitter v.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound singing bird1565 songbird1573 whistler1590 singer1626 songster1656 songstress1684 poeta1748 squeaker1808 twitterer1815 night singer1816 song-fowl1877 1815 R. Polwhele Fair Isabel i. xxvi. 51 Oft would she aim, enrag'd, to arrest The twitterers that disturb'd her hymn. 1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Isles I. 2 When the forest howls to its fury, driving the twitterers from the spray. 1890 O. Crawfurd Round Calendar in Portugal 178 Several feeble-winged twitterers. 1955 Bios 26 195 Mostly they are the Caribbean Martin.., a subspecies of the familiar twitterer of eastern North America. 2011 Times 2 July. (Saturday Review) 24/1 Examples of the songs of our best-loved twitterers prefacing a salmagundi of curious facts about each bird. 2. A person who talks at length or in an idle or trivial manner; a chatterer, a prattler. Cf. twitter v.1 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person chaterestrea1250 jangler1303 babbler1366 blabbererc1375 jangleressc1386 talkerc1386 clatterer1388 cacklera1400 languager1436 carperc1440 mamblerc1450 praterc1500 jackdaw?1520 chewet1546 flibbertigibbet1549 clatterfart1552 patterer1552 piec1557 long tongue?1562 prattler1567 piet1574 twattler1577 brawler1581 nimble-chops1581 pratepie1582 roita1585 whittera1585 full-mouth1589 interprater1591 chatterer1592 pianet1594 bablatrice1595 parakeet1598 Bow-bell cockney1600 prattle-basket1602 bagpipe1603 worder1606 babliaminy1608 chougha1616 gabbler1624 blatterer1627 magpie1632 prate-apace1636 rattlea1637 clack1640 blateroon1647 overtalker1654 prate-roast1671 prattle-box1671 babelard1678 twattle-basket1688 mouth1699 tongue-pad1699 chatterista1704 rattler1709 morologist1727 chatterbox1774 palaverer1788 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 slangwhanger1807 nash-gab1816 pump1823 windbag1827 big mouth1834 gasbag1841 chattermag1844 tattle-monger1848 rattletrap1850 gasser1855 mouth almighty1864 clucker1869 talky-talky1869 gabster1870 loudmouth1870 tonguester1871 palaverista1873 mag1876 jawsmith1887 spieler1894 twitterer1895 yabbler1901 wordster1904 poofter1916 blatherer1920 ear-bender1922 burbler1923 woofer1934 ear-basher1944 motormouth1955 yacker1960 yammerer1978 jay- the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person > one who talks nonsense or waffler penduguma1529 gibble-gabbler1653 maunderer1827 nonsense-talkera1832 bunkumite1864 phlyarologist1867 twitterer1895 blitherer1902 bosher1913 gobshite1946 waffler1959 1895 J. G. Woolley in Voice (N.Y.) 17 Oct. 2/1 A mere twitterer of lackadaisical platitudes. 1952 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 56 157/2 They have assumed that this general public is not entirely composed of weak-witted twitterers incapable of following a rational argument. 2005 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 21 Jan. These finger-wagging, fault-finding, tut-tutting twitterers have us atoning for more sins than even the abstemious black puritans were obliged to. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twitterern.2 A person who uses the social networking service Twitter, esp. habitually or frequently. Cf. twitter v.4, tweeter n. Additions. ΚΠ 2006 @bananza 7 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I guess I'm Twittering. I'm a Twitterer. 2009 Honolulu Weekly 11 Feb. 27/1 As a Twitterer, you get 140 characters in a simple text block to write, or ‘tweet’, whatever you want. 2014 A. Halavais & M. Garrido in M. McCaughey Cyberactivism on Participatory Web vi. 130 Just over a fifth of the posts also editorialized, making clear what the twitterer thought of the events. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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