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chitters

chitters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chitter.

Meaning of chitter

Verb

chitter (third-person singular simple present chitters, present participle chittering, simple past and past participle chittered)

  1. To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
    • It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) To shiver or chatter with cold.
    • Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, / An' close thy e'e?1786, Robert Burns, A Winter Night

Questions about chitters

What is chitters the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chitters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chitter.

Words near chitters in the dictionary

  1. chittered
  2. chittering
  3. chitterings
  4. chitterling
  5. chitterlings
  6. chitters
  7. chitthi
  8. chitthis
  9. chitti
  10. Chittick
  11. Chitticks

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