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单词 twittering
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twitteringn.1

Brit. /ˈtwɪt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtwɪdərɪŋ/
Forms: 1600s– twittering, 1700s twitt'ring.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: twitter v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < twitter v.1 + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of laughing, esp. in a somewhat suppressed or restrained manner; the sound of such laughter; tittering, giggling, sniggering. Cf. twitter v.1 3. Now somewhat rare.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > giggling or tittering
teeheeing?a1300
giggling?1518
tittering1637
twittering1654
titteration1753
gigglement1820
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. viii. 218 These were dresses not disproved by our Fore-Mothers; though if one should now appeare so, what twittering and peeping through the Fingers we should have?
1684 Parl. Women 15 What a twittering, and giggling, and teighing, there was from one end of the Room to the other.
1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote II. xxx. 169 Your Shoulder dabs have spoil'd my Laughter, and stop'd my twittering hereafter.
1874 Bradford Observer 15 Dec. 2/7 Suppressed twittering reaching his ear from the gallery.
2003 Illawarra (New S. Wales) Mercury (Nexis) 5 June 28 The sound of nervous twittering erupting from the audience during a murder scene is not the response any director would eagerly seek.
b. The light, tremulous chirruping or warbling of a bird or birds; an instance of this. Cf. twitter v.1 1a.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > twitter or chirp > action of
chatteringa1250
writelingc1275
jargoning?a1366
chitteringc1374
jargonc1386
chirpingc1440
chirming1481
garrulingc1550
chirruping1579
twittering1773
twitteration1805
chippering1879
1773 J. Herries Elements Speech i. vii. 83 The bleating of sheep, the twittering of birds, the snarling of the dog.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 234 Will the sweet warbler of the live-long night..Forget his harmony with rapture heard, To learn the twitt'ring of a meaner bird?
1834 Cape of Good Hope Lit. Gaz. Apr. 52 A trickling murmur that mingles well with the..cry of the beckbecary, and the twittering of the graceful sugar-birds.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. ii. 21 The twittering of the young starlings in their nests.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood v. 92 He was in the midst of small birds who made a cheerful twittering from the greening boughs.
1935 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Jan. While feathered twitterings from the cliff-clung trees Soft scold remonstrantly the fading light.
2001 S. Birdsell Russländer iii. 345 She grew used to the stillness that radiated above the land like heat shimmer, a stillness punctuated by the twittering of tomtits nesting in a tree outside her window.
c. Any light, tremulous sound likened to that made by a bird, such as singing, music, chatter, etc.
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1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 482/2 Chords responsive to the twitterings of that slender image of a voice.
1877 S. Baring-Gould Myst. Suffering 87 The twanging of fiddles and twittering of flutes.
1931 Manch. Guardian 2 Mar. 6/2 She silenced me by her twittering and stammering.
1972 Spectator 30 Sept. 512/2 We started with persistent electronic twittering and..ended with a muted evocation of an aerial bombardment.
2015 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 May c6 A collage of pan-tonal twitterings with lots of tuned percussion and gentle sound effects from the strings.
2.
a. An eager desire or longing; a hankering, a yearning. Frequently with prepositional phrase or infinitive expressing the object of desire. Cf. twitter v.1 2a. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun]
ondeeOE
yearningeOE
longingOE
forlonginga1250
mourningc1300
yering13..
eye-seke?c1500
panting1580
greening1584
smackeringa1586
brame1590
languora1599
earning1603
lingering1608
yawning1635
tantalizing1640
slavering1642
longingness1651
tantalization1654
twittering1668
hankering1678
honing1725
lech1796
yearna1797
languishment1817
yearningness1839
hanker1881
tantalizingness1889
yen1906
1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden v. i Though you had a twittering to Althea, you will make ne'er the worse husband to Victoria.
1672 Ann. Love i. 39 Had..the Empress suspected, that the twittering she had for the Duke, would have made her forget all her obligations to her self [etc.].
a1679 Earl of Orrery Guzman (1693) i. 5 Thou know'st I have still had a Twittering to be a Cottager of Parnassus.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxxxii. 289 A Widow that had a Twittering toward a second Husband.
b. The action or an instance of trembling, shaking, or quivering. Cf. twitter v.1 2b. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > trembling with emotion
trembling1303
thrilla1680
twittering1682
strumming1822
shiver1863
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > trembling or quivering
trembling1303
bevering1398
brawling?a1400
tremefaction1598
trepidation1605
warbling1621
quavering1635
tremulation1651
tremblement1677
twittering1682
diddering1687
thrilling1747
quaving1825
dither1878
1682 N. Tate Ingratitude of Common-wealth iv. 43 He has set me in terrible Twittering, My Heart beats still.
1862 W. Collins Let. 10 Oct. in W. M. Clarke Secret Life W. Collins (1996) ix. 102 No confusion in my brains, but a sickness, faintness and universal tremblings—startled by the slightest noise—more nervous twitterings last night, little sleep—sick feeling and taste of coffee.
1902 J. H. Clarke Dict. Pract. Materia Medica II. 1081 Violent twittering before eyes.
1934 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 115 399 The object of the present work was to discover the cause of twittering in egg white.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

twitteringn.2

Brit. /ˈtwɪt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtwɪdərɪŋ/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: twitter v.4, -ing suffix1; proper name Twitter , -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Either (i) < twitter v.4 (although this is apparently first attested slightly later) + -ing suffix1, or (ii) < the proprietary name of the social networking service Twitter + -ing suffix1.
The action or practice of posting on the social networking service Twitter; use of Twitter.Tweeting is the more common term; cf. tweeting n.
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2006 @biz 26 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Sometimes twittering feels kinda like taking a text based photo.
2018 Southland (N.Z.) Express (Nexis) 10 May In this day and age of typing, texting and twittering, it is even more important to remember to talk with one another.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

twitteringadj.

Brit. /ˈtwɪt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtwɪdərɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: twitter v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < twitter v.1 + -ing suffix2.
1. Of a bird: that gives a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds; chirruping, warbling; (also) of the nature of, or characterized by, such sounds. Later also of a person: that talks rapidly or volubly; chattering, gossiping. Cf. twitter v.1 1.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [adjective] > singing or chirping
chatteringa1250
chantinga1529
chippering1593
pipient1607
chirping1611
twittering1628
chittering1821
weeting1852
chirming1854
garrulous1854
1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iv. 126 Before the spring with flowers the meadows guild, Or twittering Swallowes on the rafters build.
1772 J. R. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 407 They [sc. Black Cap Titmice] make a twittering noise.
1785 S. J. Pratt Misc. I. 265 The twittering songsters hail their season nigh.
1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xxxi, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 16 We gather in loud choirs the twittering race.
1879 New Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 9 435/1 The jaded, hot, twittering crowd that are only able to listen during the pauses of conversation.
1904 Auk 21 61 From time to time we would fall in with wandering flocks of Crossbills, the dipping flight and twittering notes on the wing calling to mind the Goldfinch.
1995 S. Howatch Absolute Truths ii. 54 She was only too keen to leave behind the twittering gossips of Cambridge.
2010 Times 19 June 83/3 Linnets: these twittering finches are on the RSPB's ‘red list’ of endangered birds.
2. That trembles or quivers, as with fear, excitement, etc.; characterized or affected by trembling or quivering; tremulous, shaking. Cf. twitter v.1 2b.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated
high-wrought1579
feverous1587
tremulous1611
feverish1637
overwound1640
gestient1644
overwrought1648
twittering1648
fevereda1657
tumultuous1667
wrought-up1688
flustered1743
trepidatinga1774
flurried1775
wrought1778
riled1825
tête montée1825
worked up1831
tumultuating1854
trepidant1891
tremorous1897
wroughted1905
goosy1906
hotted-up1923
steamed1923
spooky1926
antsy-pantsy1944
antsy1950
agitato1964
amped1967
wired1970
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adjective] > trembling or quivering
tremblinga1400
aspen?c1412
quavering?a1439
didderingc1440
wavering1488
quavery1519
quiveringa1547
warbling1549
tremble1568
quiverish1582
tremefacting1599
aguisha1602
tremulous1611
twittering1648
brandishing1658
micant1661
shivery1747
shivering1762
tremulating1813
dithing1818
dithering1821
quivery1833
tremulant1837
trembly1846
thrilling1850
trepidatory1881
shuddering1893
doddery1919
1648 Mercurius Elencticus No. 36. 282 The Scots and Sir Marmaduke Langdale are advanced and marched a good way into Yorkshire & Lancash. which hath put the saints into a very twittering condition.
1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 85 I was lately in a twittering fear for you, But now I confess myself hen-hearted.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1257 I am in a twittering case, inter sacrum saxumque sto.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 75 The sun now sinks behind the woodland green, And twittering spangles glow the leaves between.
1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders I. 317/2 I more than once observed the twittering streak of satisfaction and delight pass owre his cheeks.
1884 R. L. Stevenson Let. to Henley Nov. (1899) I. 335 Hardly able to come downstairs for twittering knees.
1936 T. S. Eliot Burnt Norton in Coll. Poems 189 Not here Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.
2005 A. Basso Wedding Deception xvi. 277 Her voice was steady, but her twittering hands let Rebecca know that Anne had taken note of their father's fire-and-brimstone look.

Derivatives

ˈtwitteringly adv.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adverb] > tremblingly
waveringlyc1400
tremblingly1552
quirily1582
quaveringly1594
quiveringly1594
tremulously1736
twitteringly1810
a-shiver1840
a-tremble1856
a-thrill1879
a-quiver1883
1810 ‘An Old Whig’ New Crisis 50 He twitteringly said: ‘His majesty would not hesitate to contribute..to restore to the commerce of the United States, its wonted activity.’
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. xvi. 255 A large zigzag fire of musketry goes twitteringly along the lines of the trenches.
2001 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Sept. 17 The mag is brimful of consumer nonsense,..including twitteringly inane features about hairstyles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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