• Twitter

    Origin

    Imitating the sound.

    Full definition of twitter

    Noun

    twitter

    (plural twitters)
    1. The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
    2. Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
      • 1986, IEEE, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986 (page 145)Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.

    Verb

    1. (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
      • GrayThe swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
    2. (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
      • Fielding Tom Jones|VIII|vii... it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me.
      • 2008 , Cherie Blair , "Tony will be so cross," I twittered as we crawled through the traffic. "He'll probably just go."
    3. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
    4. To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
    5. (neologism, Internet) To use the microblogging service Twitter.

    Synonyms

    • (internet neologism) tweet

    Derived terms

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