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"The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds."
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"ref": "1986, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986, IEEE, page 145",
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"A tremulous broken sound."
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"(countable) A tremulous broken sound."
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"A slight trembling of the nerves."
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"Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit."
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"(countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit."
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "tjielpen"
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
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{
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "cinguettare"
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
"tags": [
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "świergotać"
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"roman": "ščebetátʹ",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"tags": [
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"word": "щебета́ть"
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"roman": "čiríkatʹ",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
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"word": "чири́кать"
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"(of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner."
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"(intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner."
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"To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle."
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"_dis1": "0 30 55 4 4 6 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak nervously",
"word": "höpöttää"
}
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"To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated."
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"To twit; to reproach or upbraid."
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[
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"(obsolete, transitive) To twit; to reproach or upbraid."
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).",
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"form": "twitters",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "twittering",
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"participle",
"present"
]
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}
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],
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"To utter a succession of chirps."
],
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[
"utter",
"utter"
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[
"succession",
"succession"
],
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"chirp",
"chirp"
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],
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"(intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
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"English intransitive verbs",
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],
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"(of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner."
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"excited",
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"(intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner."
],
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"transitive"
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{
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"To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated."
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
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"To twit; to reproach or upbraid."
],
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"(obsolete, transitive) To twit; to reproach or upbraid."
],
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"word": "Twitter"
}
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"ref": "2009 March 2, Michelle Levi, “McCain Criticizes Obama On The Senate Floor”, in CBS News, retrieved 2009-03-02",
"text": "In addition to listing specific earmarks he finds the most reprehensible, McCain said he has been twittering the “top ten” most egregious",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"word": "tweet"
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"alt-of",
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"English terms with usage examples"
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"text": "A blue jay twittered by me.",
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"To move like a songbird."
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"songbird",
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"(intransitive) To move like a songbird."
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtwɪtəɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtwɪt̬əɹ/",
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"General-American"
]
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{
"ipa": "[ˈtʰwɪɾ.ɚ]",
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"General-American"
]
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{
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},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čurulikam",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "чуруликам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "cvrlikat"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "tjielpen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "sirkuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "visertää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "zwitschern"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "cinguettare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "pekī"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "tihau"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ćwierkać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "świergotać"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "щебета́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "чири́кать"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to utter chirps",
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"perfective",
"semelfactive"
],
"word": "чири́кнуть"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to utter chirps",
"word": "kvittra"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak nervously",
"word": "höpöttää"
}
],
"word": "twitter"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with unknown etymologies",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
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"form": "twitters",
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"plural"
]
}
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"args": {},
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],
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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"General-American"
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"ipa": "[ˈtʰwɪɾ.ɚ]",
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"General-American"
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"tags": [
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],
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{
"enpr": "twĭt'ər"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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