"chitter" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chitter-chatter"
    }
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      "expansion": "Middle English chiteren",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "chitren"
      },
      "expansion": "chitren",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "cheteren"
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      "expansion": "cheteren",
      "name": "m"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "onomatopoeic",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "didder"
      },
      "expansion": "didder",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "teeter"
      },
      "expansion": "teeter",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "zittern"
      },
      "expansion": "German zittern",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "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"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chittering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chittered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chittered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter."
      ],
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          "twitter",
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        [
          "chirp",
          "chirp"
        ],
        [
          "chatter",
          "chatter"
        ]
      ]
    },
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          "name": "Scottish English",
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          "name": "English onomatopoeias",
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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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shiver or chatter with cold."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chitter"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "chitter (plural chitters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "chitterling"
        }
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of chitterling"
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialect) Alternative form of chitterling"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chitter"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English onomatopoeias",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chitter-chatter"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "Middle English chiteren",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "chitren"
      },
      "expansion": "chitren",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "cheteren"
      },
      "expansion": "cheteren",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
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      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "didder"
      },
      "expansion": "didder",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "teeter"
      },
      "expansion": "teeter",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "zittern"
      },
      "expansion": "German zittern",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "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"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chittering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chittered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chittered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chitter (third-person singular simple present chitters, present participle chittering, simple past and past participle chittered)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "twitter",
          "twitter"
        ],
        [
          "chirp",
          "chirp"
        ],
        [
          "chatter",
          "chatter"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, Robert Burns, A Winter Night",
          "text": "Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, / An' close thy e'e?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shiver or chatter with cold."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chitter"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chitters",
      "tags": [
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "chitterling"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of chitterling"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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      ],
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        "(dialect) Alternative form of chitterling"
      ],
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