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witter

/ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/US/ˈwɪtɚ/

witter verb: to speak at length on a trivial subject.

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.
    • When people witter on about pollution nowadays, I think of the days when going to school in broad daylight, I couldn't see my feet in the London smog. I had to feel the kerb with my front bike wheel.2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 55

Adjective

witter (comparative more witter, superlative most witter)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) knowing, certain, sure, wis.

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.

Proper noun capitalized: Witter

Witter (plural Witters)

  1. A surname.

witter meaning in Malayalam

witter in Malayalam

gabble, babble, jabber
ചിലയ്ക്കുക, ജല്പിക്കുക, ചലുപിലെ സസാരിക്കുക, അവ്യക്തമായി പറയുക, പിറുപിറുക്കുക, അലയ്ക്കുക

Forms of witter

Verb
third-person singular presentwitters
present participlewittering
past participlewittered
pastwittered
Adjective
comparativemore witter
superlativemost witter
Proper noun
pluralWitters

Origin of witter

From Middle English witter, witer, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitr (“wise, knowing”), from Proto-Germanic *witraz (“knowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis.

From Middle English witteren, witeren, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitra (“to make wise, make sure”), from Proto-Germanic *witrōną (“to make wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitra (“to make wise, make certain”), Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis.

From Middle English Witere, Wytere, Whittere, Whytere (surname), from Middle English whitere (“a bleacher, caulker, whitewasher”), equivalent to white + -er.

Words that rhyme with witter

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Questions about witter

What does witter mean?
Witter means to speak at length on a trivial subject.
What is witter in Malayalam?
Witter in Malayalam is ചിലയ്ക്കുക, ജല്പിക്കുക, ചലുപിലെ സസാരിക്കുക. See Witter meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is witter?
Witter can be a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce witter?
Witter is pronounced /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the past tense of witter?
The past tense of witter is wittered.

Words near witter in the dictionary

  1. Wittenbergs
  2. Wittenburg
  3. Wittenburgs
  4. Wittenheim
  5. Wittens
  6. witter
  7. wittered
  8. wittering
  9. witterings
  10. witterly
  11. witters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: witter (page history and authors); Witter (page history and authors); witter (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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