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twittered


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Twitter  \Twit"ter\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Twittered};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Twittering}.]  [OE.  twiteren  of  imitative  origin;  cf 
  G.  zwitschern  OHG.  zwizzir?n,  D.  kwetteren  Sw  qwitra  Dan. 
  quiddre.  Cf  {Titter}.] 
  1.  To  make  a  succession  of  small  tremulous,  intermitted 
  noises. 
 
  The  swallow  twittering  from  the  straw-built  shed. 
  --Gray. 
 
  2.  To  make  the  sound  of  a  half-suppressed  laugh;  to  titter; 
  to  giggle.  --J.  Fletcher. 
 
  3.  [Perhaps  influenced  by  twitch.]  To  have  a  slight  trembling 
  of  the  nerves;  to  be  excited  or  agitated. 




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