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Twitter sb.1. 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. Twitter sb.1 [f. TWITTER v.1]

1   1.  A condition of twittering or tremulous excitement (from eager desire, fear, etc.); a state of agitation; a flutter, a tremble. Now chiefly dial.

2 1678.  Butler, Hud., III. I. 83. The ancient errant knights Won all their ladies’ hearts in fights, And cut whole giants into fritters, To put them into amorous twitters.

3 a. 1734.  North, Exam., I. iii. § 31 (1740), 141. The Attorney-General … was in a Twitter; for some of his Friends told him he would certainly be questioned for it in Parliament.

4 1802.  G. Colman, Poor Gentleman, I. i. If I ben’t all of a twitter to see my old John Harrowby again!

5 1825.  J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, II. 151. A leap of the heart … and a sort of tingling twitter through all his blood.

6 1861.  Thackeray, Four Georges, iv. (1862), 198. In a twitter of indignation.

7 1869.  Trollope, He knew, etc., xxxi. [She] was in a twitter, partly of expectation, and partly … of fear.

8 1869.  Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women, vi. Beth hurried on in a twitter of suspense.

9   b.  A suppressed laugh, a titter; a fit of laughter. dial.

10 1736.  Lewis, Isle of Tenet, Gloss. s.v. (E.D.S.). He is in a mighty twitter.

11 1847–78.  Halliwell, Twitter,… (2) A fit of laughter. Kent.

12   2.  An act or the action of twittering, as a bird; light tremulous chirping. Also transf. a sound resembling this.

13 1842.  Browning, Waring, I. vi. 35. As pours some pigeon … her melodious cry Amid their [swallows’] barbarous twitter!

14 1849.  W. S. Mayo, Kaloolah, v. (1850), 40. The hesitating twitter of the sleepy birds.

15 1871.  Blackie, Four Phases, i. 43. A mere swallow-twitter of inarticulate jargon.

16 1902.  Snaith, Wayfarers, xvi. The ceaseless twitter of the rain on the road.

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