witteringn.
/ˈwɪt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɪdərɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈwɪt(ə)rɪŋ/ Scottish and northern.
Information, cognizance; modern dialect a sign, token (cf. witter n.1 1), a hint.
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society > communication > information > [noun]
kithc900
avaymentc1315
learningc1386
information1390
knowledgea1398
witteringa1400
witting1417
advicec1425
hearinga1450
understanding1473
intelligence?a1475
intellectionc1475
wit1487
instructiona1535
myance1552
fact1566
aviso1589
facts and figures1727
tell1823
message1828
renseignement1841
khubber1878
dope1901
lowdown1905
info1907
poop1911
oil1915
score1938
gen1940
intel1961
scam1964
society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign
tokeningc888
fingereOE
senyeOE
markOE
showing?c1225
blossomc1230
signa1325
signifyingc1384
evidencea1393
notea1398
forbysena1400
kenninga1400
knowinga1400
showerc1400
unningc1400
signala1413
signification?a1425
demonstrancec1425
cenyc1440
likelinessc1450
ensign1474
signifure?a1475
outshowinga1500
significativea1500
witter1513
precedent1518
intimation1531
signifier1532
meith1533
monument1536
indicion?1541
likelihood1541
significator1554
manifest1561
show1561
evidency1570
token-teller1574
betokener1587
calendar1590
instance1590
testificate1590
significant1598
crisis1606
index1607
impression1613
denotementa1616
story1620
remark1624
indicium1625
denotation1633
indice1636
signum1643
indiction1653
trace1656
demonstrator1657
indication1660
notationa1661
significatory1660
indicator1666
betrayer1678
demonstration1684
smell1691
wittering1781
notaa1790
blazonry1850
sign vehicle1909
marker1919
rumble1927
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21583 Þat godd suld send hir witering [Gött. witring] sun, Quat he o þat cros wald ha don.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. i. 411 Noe first send furþ þe rawin Till get wittering and knawlege Gif þat þe flud begouth to suage.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 342 Iames of douglas of thare cummyng..had vittering [1489 Adv. witting].
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. iv. 79 And of thair cupling wittering schew the air.
17.. Broomfield Hill viii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1884) I. ii. 394 That was to be wittering true That maiden she had gane.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (E.D.S.) Wittering, an hint.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wittering, a hint, a secret report.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (at cited word) I got a wittering o' 't from him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
> as lemmas
ˈwittering
ˈwittering adj.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] > waffling or rambling
rambling1693
waffling1698
maundering1850
wittering1886
waffly1964
1886 [see main sense].
1983 Listener 20 Jan. 5/2 A really wittering, patronising speech programme is a worse insult to the intelligence than the most fatuous disc jockey.
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n.a1400as lemmas
- to be at war
- to be at words
- to be at, to take til =to any person's or persons' fay
- to be at, to take til any person's or persons' fay
- to be atragedizing
- to be au fait in or at
- to be awake to
- to be aware
- to be aware of
- to be aware that
- to be away
- to be away for slates
- to be back on one's feet
- to be bad kokum
- to be bad luck
- to be bad news
- to be badly served
- to be bagged
- to be battened on
- to be becalmed
- to be beforehand in the world
- to be beforehand with
- to be beforehand with the world
- to be behindhand in the world
- to be behindhand with the world