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Twitten. World English Historical Dictionary

Twitten. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Twitten Sussex dial. Also twitting. [Perh. related to LG. twiete alley, lane; but cf. also OE. twicen and TWITCHEL1.] A narrow path or passage between two walls or hedges.

1 1801.  Pennant, Journ. fr. Lond. to Isle of Wight, II. 77. Alleys, or, as they are called here [at Brighton] twittings, narrow passages, often not three feet wide.

2 1860.  W. H. Ainsworth, Ovingdean Grange, 334. Having tracked a series of ‘twittens’ … they issued forth into West-street.

3 1904.  Sat. Rev., 2 April, 424/1. Along the bostals of the Downs and through the village twittens.

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