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twittering

twittering is the present participle and gerund of twitter.

Meaning of twitter

Verb

twitter (third-person singular simple present twitters, present participle twittering, simple past and past participle twittered)

  1. (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
    • The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, / The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley...
  2. (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
  3. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
    • Oh, the young handsom wenches, how they twitter'd, / When they but saw me shake my ware, and sing too!c. 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subiect”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please...
  4. To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To twit; to reproach or upbraid.
    • I have repented of it many’s the good time and oft. And if he was so good to forgive me a word spoken in haste or so, it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me. He was a husband to me, he was; and if ever I did make use of an ill word or so in a passion, I never called him rascal […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

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Noun

twittering (plural twitterings)

  1. The act of producing chirping sounds, or twitters.
    • Once there, he blushingly went through the procedure, having to fold and refold the flag about three times, to the twitterings and gigglings of twelve little girls.1959 May, Boys' Life, volume 49, number 5, page 56

Verb capitalized: Twittering

Twittering

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Twitter

Forms of twittering

pluraltwitterings

Questions about twittering

What does twittering mean?
Twittering means the act of producing chirping sounds, or twitters.
What is twittering the present participle and gerund of?
Twittering is the present participle and gerund of twitter.
What part of speech is twittering?
Twittering can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of twittering?
The plural of twittering is twitterings.

Words near twittering in the dictionary

  1. Twitterese
  2. Twitterfag
  3. Twitterfags
  4. Twitterfication
  5. Twittergate
  6. twittering
  7. twitteringly
  8. twitterings
  9. twitterish
  10. twitterism
  11. twitterisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: twittering (page history and authors); Twittering (page history and authors); twitter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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