Twitter

Definition: Twitter

Twitter

Noun

1. A series of chirps.

Verb

1. Make high-pitched sounds, as of birds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "twitter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Twitter

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Noun: agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation, quassation; shuffling c. Verb: twitter, flicker, flutter.

Adjective: shaking; Verb: agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory; saltatoric; quasative; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter.

Excitation

Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.

Feeling

Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath.

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Crosswords: Twitter

Books

• Mrs. Twitter the Animal Sitter. (reference)

• The Twitter Machine: Reflections on Language (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "twitter": all of a twitter ♦ bird twitter. Additional references.

Ending with "twitter": bird-twitter.

Albanian

eksitim (excitement, ferment, frenzy), cicëroj (Carol, chatter, chirp, chirrup, tweet), cicërimë (Carol, chatter, chirp, chirrup, peep, tweet, warble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزر, ‏هز (agitate, bob, concuss, convulse, jolt, rattle, ring, rock, shake, shock, stir, swing, vibrate, wag, waggle), ‏هذر (chatter, gabble, garrulity, gibber, logorrhea, loquacity, palaver, patter, prate, prolixity, twaddle), ‏لغو (chat, chatter, chitchat, crack, logorrhea, loquacity, moonshine, palaver, slipslop, small talk, tittle tattle), ‏لغا (chatter, crack, yap), ‏تغريد (chirp, note, pipe, song, warble), ‏سقسق (chirp, chirrup, tweet), ‏ضحكة نصف مكبوتة, ‏ضحك على نحو نصف مكبوت, ‏إرتعاش (flutter, quaver, quiver, shake, shaking, trembling, tremor, twitch, wobble), ‏إرتجاف (dither, quaver, quiver, shudder, stirring, throb, trembling, tremor), ‏ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, yap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чуруликане (chirp, pipe, piping, tweet, warble), чуруликам (Carol, chirp, pipe, tweet, warble), цвъртене (chirp, chirr, peep, sizzle, splutter, sputter, stridulate), трепет (flutter, quiver, thrill, throb, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation), кикотене (snigger), говоря нервно, говоря безсмислено, говоря припряно, нервно говорене, нервна възбуда, бързо говорене, припряно говорене. (various references)

Chinese 

喳 (chirp). (various references)

Czech

rozechvìní (excitement, quiver, thrill), cvrlikat (Chirk, chirp, chirrup), cvrlikání (chirp), šveholit (chirp), šveholení, štìbetání (chirrup, waffle). (various references)

Dutch

tjilpen (chirp, peep), sjilpen (chirp, peep), piepen (chirp, creak, gnash, grate, grind, peep, whistle), kwetteren (chirp, peep). (various references)

Esperanto

pepi (chirp, peep). (various references)

Faeroese

láta (chirp, peep). (various references)

Farsi 

هیجان وارتعاش , چهچه زدن , چهچه (Carol, Warble), سرزنش کننده (Rater, Scolder), صداهای مسلسل ومتناوب ایجادکردن . (various references)

Finnish

visertää (chirp, chirrup), viserrys (chirp), sirkutus (chirp, chirrup), sirkuttaa (chirp, chirrup), liverrys (warble). (various references)

French

pépier (tweet), gazouiller. (various references)

German

zwitschern (chipper, chirp, chirrup, peep, to chipper, to chirp, to twitter). (various references)

Greek 

τερετίζω (chatter, cheep, chirrup, stridulate, trill, warble). (various references)

Hebrew 

לצפצף (blow a whistle, chirp, whistle), ציוץ (cheep, chirp, tweet), צויץ (chirp, chirrup), צפצוף (chirp, hiss, hooting, pip, whistle). (various references)

Hungarian

csicsergés (chatter, Chirm, chirp, chirping, chirrup). (various references)

Indonesian

siulan (tweet), siul (tweet), mencicip (chirp, eat, sip at, taste), bersiul (cheep, tweet, whistle). (various references)

Italian

cinguettio (chirp, chirping, chirrup, prattle, twittering), cinguettare (chirp, chirrup, tweet), agitazione (abetment, agitation, anxiety, bother, commotion, disturbance, excitement, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, fret, fussiness, restlessness, state, stir, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

囀る (to chirp, to sing, to twitter), ちゅうちゅう鳴く (a little, dabble, easily accomplished, frequently, hobbling, make a pass at, meddle, now and then, occasionally, often, restless, to chirp, to squeak, to twitter, toddling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さえずる (to chirp, to sing, to twitter), ちゅうちゅうなく (to chirp, to squeak, to twitter). (various references)

Manx

thassaney (buzz, hiss, hissing, twittering), thassane (babbling, buzz, buzz of crowd, buzzing, hiss, hum, murmuring, twittering), jannoo thassane (babble, hiss). (various references)

Pig Latin

ittertway

Portuguese

pipilar (chirp, peek, peep, pip, pule, tweet), gorjear (carol, chirp, peep). (various references)

Romanian

vorbi cu vocea tremuratã, stare de nervozitate, pirui (trill), ciripit (Carol, chatter, chirp, chirrup, garrulity, lay, peep, warble), ciripi (Carol, chatter, chirp, chirrup, peep, pipe, warble), chirãi (chirp, shout, shriek, yell). (various references)

Russian 

щебет (chirrup), возбуждение (ebullience, ebulliency, effervescence, effervescency, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, ferment, fermentation, field, flurry, fluster, fume, incitement, irritation, kick, thrill), болтать (blab, cank, chat, chatter, chin, confabulate, cosher, gab, haver, jabber, natter, prate, prattle, rattle, shoot the breeze, tattle, witter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

cvrkut (chirp, tweet). (various references)

Spanish

piada (cheep), nerviosismo (intensity, nerve, nervousness), gorjeo (chirp, chirrup, piping, trill, warble), gorjear (chirp, chirrup, gurgle, trill, warble), estar nervioso (jitter), estar inquieto (fidget), agitarse (Bob, churn, convulse, fidget, flap, fuss, heave, ruffle, shake, surge, toss, toss about, toss around, toss up, tumble, wag, wave), agitación (agitation, convulsion, discomposure, excitement, ferment, flurry, fussiness, restiveness, state, stir, welter). (various references)

Swedish

kvittra (chirp, chirrup, tweet, warble), kvitter (chirp, chirrup, tweet, warble). (various references)

Turkish

sesi titremek (trill), kıs kıs gülmek (laugh in one's sleeve, lough like a hyena, snicker, snigger, tehee, titter), kıkırdamak (chortle, chuckle, giggle, titter), kıkırdama (chortle, chuckle, giggle, titter), heyecandan titremek, heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), cıvıltı (cheep, cheeping, chirp, pipe, tweet), cıvıldamak (cheep, chirp, coo, tweet). (various references)

Ukrainian

щебетати (babble, chatter, chirm, chirp, chirrup, quaver, tweet), щебетання (chatter, chirp, chirrup), збудження (agitation, animation, effervescence, effervescency, exaltation, excitation, excitement, exciting, flush, intoxication, kindling, stimulation, taking, vivacity, wallop), базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, burble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, waffle, wind, yak-yak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xốn xang. (various references)

Welsh

yswitian (chitter, twirp). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "twitter": twittered, twittering, twitters, twittery. (additional references)

Words ending with "twitter": atwitter. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Twitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: triter, twaite, twittery. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: titter.

-2 letters: titer, titre, trite, twier, write.

-3 letters: rite, tier, tire, tret, twit, weir, wert, wire, wite, writ.

-4 letters: ire, rei, ret, tet, tew, tie, tit, wet, wit.

-5 letters: er, et, it, re, ti, we.

+1 letter: atwitter, twitters, twittery, whittret.

+2 letters: twittered, whittrets.

+3 letters: intertwist, outwritten, twittering, watertight.

+4 letters: bittersweet, intertwists, typewritten, whitethroat.

+5 letters: bittersweets, ghostwritten, intertwisted, whitethroats.