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whitter

whitter is the alternative form of witter.

Meaning of witter

Verb (1)

witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To speak at length on a trivial subject.
    • She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.

Verb (2)

witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) to make sure, inform, or declare.

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Proper noun capitalized: Whitter

Whitter (plural Whitters)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

Forms of whitter

Verb
third-person singular presentwhitters
present participlewhittering
past participlewhittered
pastwhittered
Proper noun
pluralWhitters

Origin of whitter

English occupational surname for a whitewasher, caulker or bleacher, from Middle English whitere, an agent derivative of Old English hwītian (“to whiten”).

Questions about whitter

What does whitter mean?
Whitter means a surname originating as an occupation.
What is whitter the alternative form of?
Whitter is the alternative form of witter.
What part of speech is whitter?
Whitter is a proper noun.

Words near whitter in the dictionary

  1. Whitten effects
  2. Whittenburg
  3. Whittenburgs
  4. Whittener
  5. whittens
  6. whitter
  7. whittered
  8. whitterick
  9. whittericks
  10. whittering
  11. whitters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whitter (page history and authors); Whitter (page history and authors); witter (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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