"chitter" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English chiteren",
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      "expansion": "German zittern",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English chiteren, chitren, cheteren. Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chitters",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "chittering",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chittered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "chittered",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter."
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        [
          "chatter",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, Robert Burns, A Winter Night:",
          "text": "Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, / An' close thy e'e?",
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      "glosses": [
        "To shiver or chatter with cold."
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        "(obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold."
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        "obsolete"
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  "word": "chitter"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chitters",
      "tags": [
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "chitterling"
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        "Alternative form of chitterling"
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        "(dialect) Alternative form of chitterling"
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  "word": "chitter"
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      "word": "chitter-chatter"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English chiteren, chitren, cheteren. Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chitters",
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        "singular",
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    {
      "form": "chittering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "chittered",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "chittered",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter."
      ],
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          "chirp",
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        ],
        [
          "chatter",
          "chatter"
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        {
          "ref": "1786, Robert Burns, A Winter Night:",
          "text": "Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, / An' close thy e'e?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shiver or chatter with cold."
      ],
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        "(obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold."
      ],
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        "Scotland",
        "obsolete"
      ]
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  "word": "chitter"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "(dialect) Alternative form of chitterling"
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