twitter

Plural: twitters

Noun

a series of chirps
The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
A tremulous broken sound.
A slight trembling of the nerves.
Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.

Verb

Verb Forms: twittered, twittering, twitters

To utter a succession of chirping sounds; to chatter nervously.
make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
To utter a succession of chirps.
(of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
To twit; to reproach or upbraid.
Alternative form of Twitter.

Examples

I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
The spectators began to TWITTER nervously as the time ran out for the final Scrabble move.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).

Synonyms

chirrup, chitter, tweet

Scrabble Score: 10

twitter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
twitter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
twitter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

twitter: valid Words With Friends Word