twitterverb [ I ]
uk/ˈtwɪt.ər/us/ˈtwɪt̬.ɚ/twitter verb [ I ] (BIRD)
(of a bird) to make a series of short, high sounds:
I was woken up by a bird twittering just outside my window.
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Animal (non-human) sounds
- baa
- bark
- bellow
- caterwaul
- caw
- cluck
- coo
- growl
- hiss
- howling
- oink
- peep
- snarl
- squawk
- squee
- trumpet
- whimper
- woof
- yip
- yowl
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twitter verb [ I ] (PERSON)
to talk quickly and nervously in a high voice, saying very little of importance or interest:
She comes in here when I'm trying to work and just twitters on about nothing.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- expressive
- hold the floor idiom
- loose
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- yap
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twitter
noun [ C ] ukus