英语词汇“jitters”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

When you're really anxious and jumpy, you can say you have the jitters. Your jitters might make it hard to stand calmly in front of an audience and deliver a speech.

Jitters is an informal but useful noun that captures the fidgety, nervous feeling that everyone gets sometimes. When you have the jitters, you're so nervous you can hardly sit still. This word is one of the relatively few coined in the United States, and it's thought to be influenced by chitter, in dialect "tremble or shiver," from Middle English chittern, "to twitter or chatter."

WORD FAMILY

jitter: jittering, jitters, jittery+/jittering: jitteringly/jittery: jitterily, jitteriness

USAGE EXAMPLES

“A little pre-match jitters but I thought I did a good job.”

Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017)

The security jitters coincided with expressions of sympathy.

Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016)

May’s government is clearly aware of the jitters.

Seattle Times(Dec 11, 2016)

n extreme nervousness

Syn|Hyper

heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies

nerves, nervousness

an uneasy psychological state

单词	jitters
释义	jitters (once / 10697 pages) n When you're really anxious and jumpy, you can say you have the jitters. Your jitters might make it hard to stand calmly in front of an audience and deliver a speech. Jitters is an informal but useful noun that captures the fidgety, nervous feeling that everyone gets sometimes. When you have the jitters, you're so nervous you can hardly sit still. This word is one of the relatively few coined in the United States, and it's thought to be influenced by chitter, in dialect "tremble or shiver," from Middle English chittern, "to twitter or chatter." WORD FAMILY jitter: jittering, jitters, jittery+/jittering: jitteringly/jittery: jitterily, jitteriness USAGE EXAMPLES “A little pre-match jitters but I thought I did a good job.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The security jitters coincided with expressions of sympathy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) May’s government is clearly aware of the jitters. Seattle Times(Dec 11, 2016) n extreme nervousness Syn\|Hyper heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies nerves, nervousness an uneasy psychological state
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