chitter
/ˈtʃɪtə
/verb [no object]
1Make a twittering or chattering sound: a pair of hawks arced chittering through the darkness...
- With wide brimmed hats and skin slippery with sun block, they chittered and chattered like sparrows, as they frolicked in their favourite spot.
- One of the tiny bat-creatures chittered nervously from the darkness.
- Not singing as they did in the spring, they were nevertheless chirping, chucking and chittering as they gleaned seeds and insects.
2Scottish & dialect Shiver with cold: they stand chittering at bus stops...
- Chaiila started chittering and gasping uncontrollably.
- Then he started chittering and whimpering in shock.
Origin
Middle English: imitative; compare with chatter.
- unmarked
- unmarkedness
- unmarketable
- unmarketed
- unmarred
- unmarriable
- unmarriage
- unmarriageable
- non-enzymatic
- non-enzymic
- none other than
- non-equilibrium
- non-erotic
- nones
- none-so-pretty
- non esse
- non-essence
- non-essential
- non est
- non est factum
- non est inventus
- nonesuch
- Nonesuch chest
- Nonesuch ornament
- nonet